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://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature24018.html Parental influence on human germline de novo mutations in 1,548 trios from Iceland H. Jónsson et al. 0 2017 2017-09-21
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22335.html The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age D. Richter et al. 0 2017 2017-06-08
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v544/n7651/full/nature22065.html A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA S. Holen et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2017 2017-04-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46044 Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7. H. Sahakyan et al. 0 2017 2017-04-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44707 Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic J. Cole 0 2017 2017-04-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44294-024-00038-8 The biomechanical evolution of the uterus and cervix and fetal growth in human pregnancy E. Louwagie et al. 0 2024 2024-10-03
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.nature.com/articles/s44260-025-00060-0 Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks G. Ramos-Fernandez et al. 0 2026 2026-01-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-024-00283-3 Uniquely human intelligence arose from expanded information capacity J. Cantlon et al. 0 2024 2024-04-11
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02961-3 Onset of summer aridification and the decline of Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua 61,000 years ago M. Gagan et al. 0 2025 2025-12-09
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/s43247-024-01703-1 Pulsatory volcanism in the Main Ethiopian Rift and its environmental consequences Z. Franceschini et al. 0 2024 2024-10-17
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://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08686-5 Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand J. Baker et al. 0 Brain Size, Relative Thumb Length 2025 2025-09-04
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07900-8 Drivers of female power in bonobos M. Surbeck et al. 0 2025 2025-04-30
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07505-1#citeas Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution M. Melchionna et al. 0 2025 2025-01-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06966-0#Abs1 First evolutionary insights into the human otolithic system C. Smith et al. 0 Inner Ear Canal Morphology 2024 2024-10-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05517-3 Fermentation technology as a driver of human brain expansion. K. Bryant et al. 0 2023 2023-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05431-8 Morphological and evolutionary insights into the keystone element of the human foot's medial longitudinal arch. R. Sorrentino et al. 0 2023 2023-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05286-z Neanderthal introgression in SCN9A impacts mechanical pain sensitivity P. Faux et al. 0 2023 2026-01-15
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04803-4 From fossils to mind. A. de Sousa et al. 0 2023 2023-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03962-0 The ecology and epidemiology of malaria parasitism in wild chimpanzee reservoirs. E. Scully et al. 0 2022 2023-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05503-6 Did alcohol facilitate the evolution of complex societies? V. Hrnčíř et al. 0 2025 2025-08-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00735-8 Modelling the end of the Acheulean at global and continental levels suggests widespread persistence into the Middle Palaeolithic A. Key et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2021 2021-06-30
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35456-y Early hominin arrival in Southeast Asia triggered the evolution of major human malaria vectors U. Singh et al. 0 2026 2026-03-04
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-95054-2 Assessing geometric microliths as cultural markers through an analysis of shape variation and projectile performance A. Cortell-Nicolau et al. 0 2025 2025-05-14
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
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-33981-w Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development Y. Khan et al. 0 Volume of Frontal Lobe White Matter 2026 2026-02-10
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-30264-2 A bone tool used by neanderthal for flaying carcasses at the Abri du Maras (France) L. Doyon et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2025 2026-01-15
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-26487-y Inferences about fossil hominin locomotion through 3D morphometric analysis of wrist ligament insertion sites A. Casado et al. 0 2025 2026-01-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-26274-9 Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting R. Yeshurun et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2025 2025-12-09
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.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/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/s41598-025-09006-x New insights into the first cervical vertebrae of Otavipithecus and Nacholapithecus A. Beaudet et al. 0 Upright Posture 2025 2025-07-16
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-08314-6 Neandertal predation agenda reveals seasonal strategies during MIS 5–4 transition in Axlor, northatlantic Iberia A. Uzunidis et al. 0 2025 2025-07-08
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-06089-4 Neanderthal coasteering and the first Portuguese hominin tracksites C. de Carvalho et al. 0 2025 2025-08-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-84163-z Genome-scale evolution in local populations of wild chimpanzees. T. Hayakawa et al. 0 2025 2025-01-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-83023-0#Abs1 Rapid change in red cell blood group systems after the main Out of Africa of Homo sapiens S. Mazières et al. 0 ABO (ABO blood group ), Blood Group Antigen Types and Prevalence 2025 2025-02-05
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-80780-w Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses M. Hämmerle et al. 0 2024 2025-05-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70206-y Reconstructing contact and a potential interbreeding geographical zone between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans S. Guran et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-69056-5 Contextualizing wild cereal harvesting at Middle Palaeolithic Ghar-e Boof in the southern Zagros S. Riehl et al. 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67817-w First identification of a Neanderthal bone spear point through an interdisciplinary analysis at Abric Romaní (NE Iberian Peninsula) P. Mateo-Lomba et al. 0 2024 2024-08-23
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7 Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan I. Laumer et al. 0 Self-Medication (Zoopharmacognosy) 2024 2024-05-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56889-3 Exploring the utility of Geometric Morphometrics to analyse prehistoric hand stencils F. Navarro et al. 0 Art, Symbolic Representation 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43026-9 Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on expanded skeletal evidence from San Juan ante Portam Latinam. T. Fernández-Crespo et al. 0 2023 2023-12-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42764-0 First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals. G. Russo et al. 0 2023 2023-10-25
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39767-2 Anatomically modern human in the Châtelperronian hominin collection from the Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France). A. Gicqueau et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37549-4 Whole mitogenomes reveal that NW Africa has acted both as a source and a destination for multiple human movements. J. Aizpurua-Iraola et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35700-9 Bone aerophones from Eynan-Mallaha (Israel) indicate imitation of raptor calls by the last hunter-gatherers in the Levant. L. Davin et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28119-9 Status does not predict stress among Hadza hunter-gatherer men. P. Fedurek et al. 0 2023 2023-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25384-y 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists. K. Wang et al. 0 2022 2022-12-20
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24403-2 The adaptive significance of human scleral brightness: an experimental study. S. Wacewicz et al. 0 Sclera Pigmentation 2022 2022-12-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20582-0#Abs1 Frontiers of the Lower Palaeolithic expansion in Europe: Tunel Wielki Cave (Poland) M. Kot et al. 0 2022 2023-01-10
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19162-z#citeas Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400–2900 years of overlap between Homo sapiens and Neandertals prior to their disappearance from France and northern Spain I. Djakovic et al. 0 2022 2022-12-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild L. Southern et al. 0 2021 2021-08-18
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=3_nsn6445_deeplink_PID100052172&utm_content=deeplink Tracking late Pleistocene Neandertals on the Iberian coast E. Mayoral et al. 0 2021 2021-04-16
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://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65322-4#citeas Genomic analysis of the natural history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using Neanderthal and ancient Homo sapiens samples P. Esteller-Cucala et al. 0 2020 2020-05-28
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64358-w Non-destructive ZooMS identification reveals strategic bone tool raw material selection by Neandertals N. Martisius et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2020 2020-07-30
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61839-w#citeas Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications B. Hardy et al. 0 2020 2020-04-09
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61659-y Short and long period growth markers of enamel formation distinguish European Pleistocene hominins M. Modesto-Mata et al. 0 2020 2020-03-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60837-2 The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism A. Beaudet et al. 0 2020 2020-03-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57235-8 Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language B. de Boer et al. 0 2020 2020-02-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51433-0 Geochemical Evidence for the Control of Fire by Middle Palaeolithic Hominins A. Brittingham et al. 0 Control of Fire 2019 2019-11-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49650-8 Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery F. Venditti et al. 0 2019 2019-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-48760-7 Orangutans show active voicing through a membranophone A. Lameira et al. 0 2019 2019-08-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44877-x A catalog of single nucleotide changes distinguishing modern humans from archaic hominins M. Kuhlwilm et al. 0 2019 2019-06-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42946-9 Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident M. Bird et al. 0 2019 2019-07-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41033-3 Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe C. Wißing et al. 0 2019 2019-03-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39511-9 Infants’ advances in speech perception shape their earliest links between language and cognition D. Perszyk et al. 0 Primary Language Acquisition 2019 2019-03-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38571-1 Skeletal Anomalies in The Neandertal Family of El Sidrón (Spain) Support A Role of Inbreeding in Neandertal Extinction L. Ríos et al. 0 2019 2019-02-11
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38392-8 Learning curves and teaching when acquiring nut-cracking in humans and chimpanzees C. Boesch et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2019 2019-02-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37904-w External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution A. Milks et al. 0 2019 2019-01-31
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-35242-5 The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula E. Scerri et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2018 2018-12-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33380-4 Caring for infants is associated with increased reproductive success for male mountain gorillas S. Rosenbaum et al. 0 Parental Investment 2018 2019-01-02
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28342-9 Neandertal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis A. Sorensen et al. 0 2018 2018-07-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21320-1#Sec2 First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain) E. Méndez-Quintas et al. 0 Tool Making 2018 2018-02-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21158-7 Archaeology and ichnology at Gombore II-2, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: everyday life of a mixed-age hominin group 700,000 years ago F. Altamura et al. 0 2018 2018-02-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15320-w Bonobos respond prosocially toward members of other groups J. Tan et al. 0 2017 2017-11-08
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-10178-4 New dating evidence of the early presence of hominins in Southern Europe. V. Michel et al. 0 2017 2017-09-14
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08106-7 Experimental methods for the Palaeolithic dry distillation of birch bark: implications for the origin and development of Neandertal adhesive technology P. Kozowyk et al. 0 2017 2017-09-05
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07065-3 Isotopic analyses suggest mammoth and plant in the diet of the oldest anatomically modern humans from far southeast Europe D. Drucker et al. 0 2017 2017-08-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06587-0 Neanderthal-Derived Genetic Variation Shapes Modern Human Cranium and Brain M. Gregory et al. 0 Brain Size 2017 2017-08-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05942-5 Acquisition of terrestrial life by human ancestors influenced by forest microclimate H. Takemoto 0 Striding Bipedalism, Upright Posture 2017 2017-08-09
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01265-7 Human bipedal instability in tree canopy environments is reduced by “light touch” fingertip support L. Johannsen et al. 0 Fingertip Sensory Nerve Endings 2017 2017-05-11
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-00548-3 Bonobo anatomy reveals stasis and mosaicism in chimpanzee evolution, and supports bonobos as the most appropriate extant model for the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans R. Diogo et al. 0 2017 2017-05-03
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05964-z Genomic landscape of the Great Steppe: Genetic variants in healthy Kazakh individuals A. Serikzhan et al. 0 2025 2026-01-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02107-w Fractal analysis of brain shape formation predicts age and genetic similarity in human newborns S. Krohn et al. 0 2025 2026-01-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01741-0 Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy L. Pritschet et al. 0 2024 2024-12-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01554-7 A ubiquitous spectrolaminar motif of local field potential power across the primate cortex D. Mendoza-Halliday et al. 0 Cortical Morphology 2024 2024-03-22
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0410-7 Divergence in the functional organization of human and macaque auditory cortex revealed by fMRI responses to harmonic tones S. Norman-Haignere et al. 0 Music 2019 2019-06-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02223-0 A map of blood regulatory variation in South Africans enables GWAS interpretation S. Castel et al. 0 2025 2025-07-24
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.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-02051-8 Structural polymorphism and diversity of human segmental duplications H. Jeong et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01960-y A history of multiple Denisovan introgression events in modern humans L. Ongaro et al. 0 2024 2024-11-06
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01931-3#citeas Heterogeneous genetic architectures of prostate cancer susceptibility in sub-Saharan Africa. R. Janivara et al. 0 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi A. Oktaviana et al. 0 Art 2026 2026-01-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09914-y Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage J. Hublin et al. 0 2026 2026-01-09
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6 Earliest evidence of making fire R. Davis et al. 0 Control of Fire 2025 2025-12-16

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