Anthropogeny Publications Exchange (APE)

The Anthropogeny Publications Exchange (APE) is a resource for anthropogeny-related publications informing on human evolution, origins, and uniqueness. It also serves as a reference repository for the Matrix of Comparative Anthropogeny (MOCA). The number of possible additions to APE are limitless, however we have chosen to focus on those with a maximum relevance to anthropogeny using the following criteria:

  • Relevance for understanding the evolutionary origins of the human species
  • Research that informs on the origins of uniquely human features
  • Comparative studies of other species relevant to understanding human uniqueness
  • Broad interest and appeal to CARTA members
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-025-10243-x Mutations Inactivating Biosynthesis of Dispensable Carbohydrate-Antigens Prevented Extinctions in Primate/Human Lineage Evolution U. Galili 0 2025 2025-04-21
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.21987 Hunter-gatherer diets and activity as a model for health promotion: Challenges, responses, and confirmations M. Konner et al. 0 2023 2025-04-18
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/A5E054A62FBC5440FE314BA6BF9CBE6D What is a society? Building an interdisciplinary perspective and why that's important M. Moffett 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.70006 Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine W. Murphree et al. 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.3403 The Earliest Evidence of Deliberate Ivory Processing Dates Back to Around 0.4 Million Years Ago V. Stepanchuk et al. 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032500072X On the Mousterian origin of bone-tipped hunting weapons in Europe: Evidence from Mezmaiskaya Cave, North Caucasus L. Golovanova et al. 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000755 Thermal constraints on Middle Pleistocene hominin brain evolution and cognition R. Dunbar 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.05.647361v1 Revisiting the African mtDNA Landscape: A Continental Update from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes I. Lankheet et al. 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.08.647730v1 Assessing the potential of ancient protein sequences in the study of hominid evolution I. Patramanis et al. 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.19.643861v1 From bones to sediments: ancient human DNA from open-air archaeological sites R. Sawafuji et al. 0 2025 2025-04-16
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08816-3 Complete sequencing of ape genomes D. Yoo et al. 0 2025 2025-04-11
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads3888 A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan T. Tsutaya et al. 0 2025 2025-04-11
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02197-4 Birds from the oven: the Middle Palaeolithic avifauna of Tabun Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel L. Amos et al. 0 2025 2025-04-09
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000181 Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago E. Berlioz et al. 0 2025 2025-04-09
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842500017X A fresh look at an iconic human fossil: Virtual reconstruction of the KNM-WT 15000 cranium K. Baab 0 2025 2025-04-09
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000077 The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs P. Chiwara-Maenzanise et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2025 2025-04-09
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02163-0 Solving the puzzle of neanderthal occupations: a reassessment of temporal indicators of occupation duration V. Lubrano et al. 0 2025 2025-04-09
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308690 Climate change in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP and Neanderthal territorial habitability A. Degioanni et al. 0 2025 2025-04-09
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.70009 Primate Behavior and the Importance of Comparative Studies in Biological Anthropology A. Sandel et al. 0 2024 2025-04-09
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv1170 Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos M. Berthet et al. 0 2025 2025-04-04
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08793-7 Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage N. Salem et al. 0 2025 2025-04-04
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/14/2/27 Child in Time: Children as Liminal Agents in Upper Paleolithic Decorated Caves E. Assaf et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416221122 Demographic interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers A. Cortell-Nicolau et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2418029122 Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia Q. Ruan et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000041 Morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla H. Hanegraef et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/17908 Further assessment of a ~2-million-year-old hominin pelvis (DNH 43) from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa E. Berg et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw5484 Mapping a complex evolutionary history S. Gravel 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4642 A geographic history of human genetic ancestry M. Grundler et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7543 A dyad of human-specific NBPF14 and NOTCH2NLB orchestrates cortical progenitor abundance crucial for human neocortex expansion N. Eşiyok et al. 0 2025 2025-04-02
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-024-09607-3 On Hunting and Meat-eating by Middle Stone Age Hominins at Loiyangalani Site in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania F. Masele 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2025 2025-04-02
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02199-2 Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology E. Hallinan et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-03-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58134-5 Climate influence on the early human occupation of South America during the late Pleistocene L. Becerra-Valdivia 0 2025 2025-03-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842500020X Human midfacial growth pattern differs from that of Neanderthals and chimpanzees A. Schuh et al. 0 2025 2025-03-26
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.22052 Comparative Context of Hard‐Tissue Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins: Implications for Alpha Taxonomy K. Balolia et al. 0 Sexual Body Size Dimorphism 2025 2025-03-26
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.70001?campaign=woletoc Investigating Development in Human Evolution: Specificities, Challenges, and Opportunities M. Lequin et al. 0 2025 2025-03-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225001634 Human presence in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau after the Last Glacial Maximum J. Wang et al. 0 2025 2025-03-26
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00419-5 Engineering skills in the manufacture of tools by wild chimpanzees A. Pascual-Garrido et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-03-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618225000242?via%3Dihub The volcanic rock spheres of Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia) at Gombore IB and later Acheulean sites M. Mussi 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.70018 Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited B. Bogin et al. 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1 A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans T. Cousins et al. 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25001178 Environmental changes influencing middle and late Pleistocene hominin survival in Northeast China: Multi-Proxy evidence from Huadian Paleolithic cave Y. Qian et al. 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/02/23/JNEUROSCI.2017-24.2025 Connectivity profile and function of uniquely human cortical areas K. Bryant et al. 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.70010 Intrasexual Selection for Upper Limb Length in Homo sapiens N. Caton et al. 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266603342500005X Human Response to Cold Climate: First Evidence from the Tibetan Plateau during the Last Glacial Maximum W. Li et al. 0 2025 2025-03-20
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900 Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago S. Miyagawa et al. 0 2025 2025-03-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08681-0 The earliest human face of Western Europe R. Huguet et al. 0 2025 2025-03-14
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404393122 Neanderthal adaptive introgression shaped LCT enhancer region diversity without linking to lactase persistence in East Asian populations X. Ma et al. 0 2025 2025-03-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001556 First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa T. Pickering et al. 0 2025 2025-03-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08652-5 Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago I. de la Torre et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-03-12
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp5769 Direct hydroxyproline radiocarbon dating of the Lapedo child (Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Leiria, Portugal) B. Linscott et al. 0 2025 2025-03-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02110-y Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago Y. Zaidner et al. 0 2025 2025-03-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08531-5?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20250306 The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans I. Lazaridis et al. 0 2025 2025-03-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124724015699 Lack of context modulation in human single neuron responses in the medial temporal lobe H. Rey et al. 0 2025 2025-03-12
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-025-03502-z A refined analysis of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences in modern humans with a complete reference genome S. Liang et al. 0 Archaic Adaptive Introgression 2025 2025-03-12
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199706)103:2%3C219::AID-AJPA7%3E3.0.CO;2-O Neandertal capitate-metacarpal articular morphology W. Niewoehner et al. 0 1997 2025-03-12
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242031 Bonobos and chimpanzees overlap in sexual behaviour patterns during social tension J. Brooker et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001416 Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality A. Lawrence et al. 0 Striding Bipedalism 2025 2025-03-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001441 New modern and Pleistocene fossil micromammal assemblages from Swartkrans, South Africa: Paleobiodiversity, taphonomic, and environmental context P. Linchamps et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001465 Paleoenvironments at the Homo erectus type locality of Trinil (Java, Indonesia): The artiodactyl evidence B. Gruwier et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001453 A reanalysis of the Taung endocranial surface: Comparison with large samples of living hominids S. Hurst et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/2/msaf041/8005733?login=true Insufficient Evidence for a Severe Bottleneck in Humans During the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition T. Cousins et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-024-01121-z Water scooping: tool use by a wild bonobo (Pan paniscus) at LuiKotale, a case report S. Pashchevskaya et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2025-03-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.639363v1?ct= Where do the Dmanisi hominins fit on the human evolutionary tree? D. Argue et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001532 Facial morphologies of Middle Pleistocene Europe: Morphological mosaicism and the evolution of Homo neanderthalensis S. Olsen et al. 0 2025 2025-03-05
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2646 Rapid evolution of prehistoric dogs from wolves by natural and sexual selection emerges from an agent-based model D. Elzinga et al. 0 Domestication of Other Animals 2025 2025-03-05
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08613-y Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago E. Ben Arous et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2677 Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents W. Sun et al. 0 Awareness of Death 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25000525?via%3Dihub Testing the waters: Plant working and seafaring in Pleistocene Wallacea R. Fuentes et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929724004579?via%3Dihub Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel C. Fortes-Lima et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56155-8 Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade A. Urciuoli et al. 0 Inner Ear Canal Morphology 2025 2025-02-26
https://jphysiolanthropol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40101-024-00382-3 Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations S. Abood et al. 0 2025 2025-02-26
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00206-x In Search of the Origins of Distance Hunting—The Use and Misuse of Tip Cross-sectional Geometry of Wooden Spears D. Leder et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2025 2025-02-26
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09601-x Interview with Mark Moffett for theory and society K. McCaffree et al. 0 2025 2025-02-22
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56579-2 A humanized NOVA1 splicing factor alters mouse vocal communications Y. Tajima et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sidi-zin-archaeological-project-new-investigations-into-the-acheulean-and-middle-stone-age-in-tunisia/CFE8F0DE025CB132E549EDB678CA5FDD Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia E. Ben Arous et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00203-0 Refitting the Context: A Reconsideration of Cultural Change among Early Homo sapiens at Fumane Cave through Blade Break Connections, Spatial Taphonomy, and Lithic Technology A. Falcucci et al. 0 2024 2025-02-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324002164 How teeth record and attenuate seasonal signals D. Green et al. 0 Enamel Structure and Enamel Thickness 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324002188 Evidence for discrete ochre exploitation 35,000 years ago in West Africa L. Dayet et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01422-3 Fine-tuning of gene expression through the Mettl3-Mettl14-Dnmt1 axis controls ESC differentiation G. Quarto et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00202-1#citeas The Uluzzian and Châtelperronian: No Technological Affinity in a Shared Chronological Framework G. Marciani et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-024-02126-x#citeas Was fire use a cultural trait of the Gravettian? New micro-archaeological data from Fuente del Salín cave (Val de San Vicente, Cantabria) G. Alzate-Casallas et al. 0 2024 2025-02-19
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2418661121 Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools H. Ahituv et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.70007 The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth C. Figus et al. 0 Low Trabecular Bone Density 2025 2025-02-19
https://sajs.co.za/article/view/18571 Results from an Australopithecus africanus dental enamel fragment confirm the potential of palaeoproteomics for South African Plio-Pleistocene fossil sites P. Madupe et al. 0 2025 2025-02-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08450-5 Complete human recombination maps G. Palsson et al. 0 Recombination Hotspots 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp7478 Neuroevolution insights into biological neural computation R. Miikkulainen 0 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08540-4 A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters A. Aubry et al. 0 Aggressiveness 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08548-w Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus W. Sun et al. 0 2025 2025-02-14
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01648-8 Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees M. Malherbe et al. 0 Gesture 2025 2025-02-13
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001428 Taxonomic revision of the SK 15 mandible based on bone and tooth structural organization C. Zanolli et al. 0 2025 2025-02-13
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420067122 Flake production: A universal by-product of primate stone percussion T. Proffitt et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-02-13
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00177-3#citeas A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation W. Zajkowski et al. 0 Cooperative Action 2024 2025-02-05
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X%2824%2900369-0 The trait-specific timing of accelerated genomic change in the human lineage E. Kun et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125000277 Long-term hominin preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia G. Stinchcomb et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635495v1.abstract Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood S. Perretti et al. 0 Skin Pigmentation Variation 2025 2025-02-05
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-024-00204-z Probable Use of Labrets Among the Mid Upper Paleolithic Pavlovian Peoples of Central Europe J. Willman 0 Dentition Size and Tooth Number 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2412450122 Bonobos point more for ignorant than knowledgeable social partners L. Townrow et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.13.604521v3 Evolution of mental traits linked to cultural development in modern humans and Neanderthals Y. Moriya et al. 0 2024 2025-02-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04.282749v4 Evolution is in the details: Regulatory differences in modern human and Neanderthal H. Barker et al. 0 2020 2025-02-05
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-85399-z#citeas Exploring the utility of unretouched lithic flakes as markers of cultural change M. Will et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05

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