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://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70094 Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis D. Longman et al. 0 2025 2025-12-03
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu5838 Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest Oldowan toolmakers E. Finestone et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-12-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09714-4 New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda Y. Haile-Selassie et al. 0 2025 2025-12-03
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9493 Genomic evidence supports the “long chronology” for the peopling of Sahul F. Gandini et al. 0 2025 2025-12-03
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513825001370#f0010 A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing M. Brindle et al. 0 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09740-2 An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals N. Foley et al. 0 2025 2025-11-25
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337005 Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia H. Groucutt et al. 0 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425001150 Revisiting hominin scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory A. Mateos et al. 0 Organized Scavenging for Meat 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24460-3 Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey Q. Cosnefroy et al. 0 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/earliest-evidence-of-blue-pigment-use-in-europe/C8817D4F033F8195955F936532553FB8 The earliest evidence of blue pigment use in Europe I. Wisher et al. 0 Art 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0995 The emergence and diversification of dog morphology A. Evin et al. 0 Domestication of Other Animals 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu2836 Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia S. Zhang et al. 0 Domestication of Other Animals 2025 2025-11-25
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.681847v1 Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous: Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals N. Slania et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000843 The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin F. Marchal et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9545 Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic D. Madsen et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(25)00315-5 Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution J. Rees et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517509122 A 12,000-year-old clay figurine of a woman and a goose marks symbolic innovations in Southwest Asia L. Davin et al. 0 Art, Symbolic Representation 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426309122 The first preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record: The Neanderthal from Altamura C. Buzi et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22376-6 A simple analytical model for Neanderthal disappearance due to genetic dilution by recurrent small-scale immigrations of modern humans A. Amadei et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64244-x Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya D. Braun et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/21/dev204779/369721/Neanderthal-derived-variants-increase-SOX9 Neanderthal-derived variants increase SOX9 enhancer activity in craniofacial progenitors that shape jaw development K. Uttley et al. 0 2025 2025-11-18
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2025.2545798 The Coastal Hypothesis: one possible migration route for Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens from the southern tip of Africa A. Whitfield et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4722 Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea F. d’Errico et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adq5229 Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs H. Schleihauf et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518974122 A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia E. Pigott et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250548 Meta-learning provides a robust framework to discern taxonomic carnivore agency from the analysis of tooth marks on bone: reassessing the role of felids as predators of Homo habilis M. Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328218 On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared A. Nikulina et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225004845 Dental mesowear patterns challenge the hypothesis of a 1.7 Ma transition to open grasslands in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind M. Malherbe et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65368-w Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior T. Suzuki et al. 0 Gut Microbiome 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-00983-6 The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution J. Colgren et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01732-2 Application of insects to wounds of self and others by chimpanzees in the wild A. Mascaro et al. 0 Self-Medication (Zoopharmacognosy) 2022 2025-11-04
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679417v1 A maternal-fetal PIEZO1 incompatibility as a barrier to Neanderthal-modern human admixture A. Makhro et al. 0 2025 2025-11-04
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950236525000301 The Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinction and Upper Paleolithic cultural changes: A hypothesis for bioenergetic-driven human adaptations M. Ben-Dor et al. 0 2025 2025-10-30
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1507 Accelerated evolution increased craniofacial divergence between humans and great apes A. Gómez-Robles et al. 0 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)00424-2 Mitogenome evidence shows two radiation events and dispersals of matrilineal ancestry from northern coastal China to the Americas and Japan Y. Li et al. 0 2023 2025-10-30
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.70013 Neanderthal Cranio‐Cervical Features: Morphological Integration and Functional Evaluation of Their Early Appearance M. Boggioni et al. 0 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr1524 Impact of intermittent lead exposure on hominid brain evolution R. Joannes-Boyau et al. 0 FOXP2 (forkhead box P2) 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683404v1 A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan S. Peyrégne et al. 0 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.nature.com/articles/6800156 Cacao domestication I: the origin of the cacao cultivated by the Mayas J. Motamayor et al. 0 Domestication of Plants 2002 2025-10-30
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01117-0 An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry J. Yang et al. 0 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09540-8 The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes L. de Lima et al. 0 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25003360 The enigmatic ‘Newall boulder’ excavated at Stonehenge in 1924: New data and correcting the record R. Bevins et al. 0 Long-range Transport of Materials 2025 2025-10-30
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510998122 Post-reproductive lifespan in wild mountain gorillas N. Smit et al. 0 Post Reproductive Life Stage 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08711-7 Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins T. Prang et al. 0 Bipedal Foot Morphology 2025 2025-10-21
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70132 Non‐Carious Cervical Lesions in Wild Primates: Implications for Understanding Toothpick Grooves and Abfraction Lesions I. Towle et al. 0 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ormagi-ekhi-georgia-and-middle-palaeolithic-occupations-in-south-caucasus/7E48EDA7D41C70272D67B26BD37E60BB Ormagi Ekhi (Georgia) and Middle Palaeolithic occupations in South Caucasus A. Mgeladze et al. 0 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15564894.2025.2542777#abstract Discovering the Paleolithic Ayvalık: A Strategic Crossroads in Early Human Dispersals Between Anatolia and Europe H. Bulut et al. 0 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09548-0 Co-option of an ancestral cloacal regulatory landscape during digit evolution A. Hintermann et al. 0 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aar7621 Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America D. Bustos et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat, Predator-Prey Relationships 2018 2025-10-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08780-y Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands E. Scerri et al. 0 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/traces-of-hominin-occupations-in-eastern-iran-middle-pleistocene-lithics-from-khousf-plain-in-the-lut-desert-margin/03316D71C019C12D0DF7C908EB4C903D Traces of hominin occupations in eastern Iran: Middle Pleistocene lithics from Khousf Plain in the Lut Desert margin S. Rafei et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09594-8 New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei C. Mongle et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-10-21
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000284 Luminescence and radiocarbon dating the Naisiusiu Beds type section and timing of the Middle Stone Age/Later Stone Age transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania I. Stanistreet et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000983 Deciphering the correlated evolutionary responses of the hands and feet in modern humans M. Arlegi et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425001009 Enhancing the reconstruction of the Gabasa Neandertal's diet using Ca and Sr stable isotopes P. Dodat et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000995 The role of Denisovan paleohabitats in shaping modern human genetic resistance to viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections A. Trájer 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000867 New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania T. Harrison et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000685 Neanderthal mobility over very long distances: The case of El Castillo cave (northern Spain) and the ‘Vasconian’ Mousterian D. Herrero-Alonso et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000703 Ilium morphological variation during growth in forager populations M. MacKinnon et al. 0 Pelvic Height and Iliac Flare 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000697 Continuity and innovation in the Late Acheulian: Technological and functional analysis of scrapers from Jaljulia, Southern Levant (500–300 ka) V. Litov et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000570 The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited C. Palancar et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425001010 A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology G. Suwa et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-025-00902-6 Host–pathogen interactions shape human evolution and future pandemics T. Hagai 0 Trim5-alpha/APOBEC Control of Retroviral Pathogens 2025 2025-10-10
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12345208/ The emergence of genetic variants linked to brain and cognitive traits in human evolution I. Libedinsky et al. 0 2025 2025-10-10
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.15321 Early humans and the balance of power: Homo habilis as prey M. Vegara‐Riquelme et al. 0 2025 2025-10-07
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-025-09620-0 Renewed Archaeological Research in Singida Region, Central Tanzania M. Itambu et al. 0 2025 2025-10-07
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379123001427 Fossil footprints at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany): A new line of research to reconstruct animal and hominin paleoecology F. Altamura et al. 0 2023 2025-10-07
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00228-z Tracking the Hunter: A Study of the Personal Gear of a Gravettian Hunter-Gatherer from Milovice IV D. Chlachula et al. 0 2025 2025-10-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63417-y Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition M. Guagnin et al. 0 Art 2025 2025-10-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-13561-8 Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave T. Mori et al. 0 Physical Modifications of the Body 2025 2025-10-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02501-z Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia P. Vaiglova et al. 0 Feasting 2025 2025-10-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61661-w Resolving out of Africa event for Papua New Guinean population using neural network M. Mondal et al. 0 2025 2025-09-30
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2467 Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya A. Lea et al. 0 2025 2025-09-30
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72000 Mycophagy in Primates of the Issa Valley, Tanzania T. Schulze et al. 0 2025 2025-09-30
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82257-6 Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals J. Blinkhorn et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2021 2025-09-30
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70054 Assessing flexibility in meaning and context in non‐human communication M. Fröhlich et al. 0 Meaning (Semantics/Pragmatics) 2025 2025-09-30
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014460.2025.2512027 Molar proportions, endocranial volume, and insular nanism in fossil Homo T. Monson et al. 0 Molar Morphology 2025 2025-09-30
https://elifesciences.org/articles/10627 Human Evolution: The many mysteries of Homo naledi C. Stringer 0 2015 2025-09-30
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00036-4 Resolving the three-dimensional interactome of human accelerated regions during human and chimpanzee neurodevelopment A. Pal et al. 0 Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) and Changes in Conserved Sequences 2025 2025-09-26
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89125 Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications A. Fuentes et al. 0 2025 2025-09-26
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508014122 Châtelperronian cultural diversity at its western limits: Shell beads and pigments from La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire F. Bachellerie et al. 0 Personal adornment, Tool Making 2025 2025-09-26
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672811v1.full Earliest Evidence of Elephant Butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Reveals the Evolutionary Impact of Early Human Megafaunal Exploitation M. Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. 0 2025 2025-09-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X25000887 Polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA I. Mathieson 0 2025 2025-09-26
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0330249 Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory B. González-Rabanal et al. 0 2025 2025-09-26
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424538122 De novo rates of a Trypanosoma-resistant mutation in two human populations D. Melamed et al. 0 Malaria 2025 2025-09-18
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003188 Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals R. Brocklehurst et al. 0 2025 2025-09-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09399-9 The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps G. Senevirathne et al. 0 2025 2025-09-18
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116300658 Shoot first, ask questions later: Interpretative narratives of Neanderthal hunting M. White et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2016 2025-09-18
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390 Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago? H. Plisson et al. 0 2025 2025-09-18
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-archaeology/articles/10.3389/fearc.2025.1575572/full Cut from the same cloth? Comparing Neanderthal processing of faunal resources at Amud and Kebara caves (Israel) through cut-marks analyses A. Jallon et al. 0 2025 2025-09-18
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt7466 Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes M. Beasley et al. 0 2025 2025-09-18
https://elifesciences.org/articles/89106 Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi L. Berger et al. 0 2025 2025-09-09
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666033425000334 Subsistence strategies in the early upper Paleolithic of central Iberia: Evidence from Abrigo de la Malia E. Téllez et al. 0 2025 2025-09-09
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513968122 Candidate Denisovan fossils identified through gene regulatory phenotyping N. Mishol et al. 0 2025 2025-09-09
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00224-3 Reconstructing Skills and Strategies of Hominins During the Early Acheulean: Behavioral Flexibility in Handaxe Production at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) K. Akhilesh et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2025-09-09
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0321262 Direct evidence for processing Isatis tinctoria L., a non-nutritional plant, 32–34,000 years ago L. Longo et al. 0 2025 2025-09-04
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521 Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact A. Graff et al. 0 2025 2025-09-04
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912500352X Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) T. Karampaglidis et al. 0 2025 2025-09-04
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9677 The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual Q. Fu et al. 0 2025 2025-09-04
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00627-0 Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium Q. Fu et al. 0 2025 2025-09-04

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