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://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/25 No Sedimentological Evidence for Deliberate Burial by Homo naledi – A Case Study Highlighting the Need for Best Practices in Geochemical Studies Within Archaeology and Paleoanthropology K. Foecke et al. 0 In Press 2024-08-08
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.09.001 Archaic hominins maiden voyage in the Mediterranean Sea G. Ferentinos et al. 0 In Press 2023-01-05
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424000654 Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022) M. Cazenave et al. 0 Striding Bipedalism In Press 2024-07-12
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea0890 Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes G. Ianni et al. 0 Facial Expression of Emotional State 2026 2026-01-15
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-025-00521-8 Did Homo Erectus Have a (Vocal) Language? L. Yao et al. 0 2026 2026-01-15
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000206 The Mismeasure of Neanderthals G. Amorós et al. 0 2026 2026-01-07
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225027130?via%3Dihub Chimpanzee locomotor risk-taking points to the importance of parental and alloparental supervision in humans B. Murray et al. 0 2026 2026-01-15
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz9554 Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa J. Cerezo-Román et al. 0 2026 2026-01-07
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.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz3281 Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago S. Isaksson et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2026 2026-01-09
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv4963 Genomic and morphometric evidence for Austronesian-mediated pig translocation in the Pacific D. Stanton et al. 0 Domestication of Other Animals 2026 2026-01-07
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx5460 Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA M. Guellil et al. 0 2026 2026-01-07
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70100 New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from the upper Burgi Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya F. Grine et al. 0 2026 2026-01-15
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv0130 Earliest evidence of hominin bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis S. Williams et al. 0 Striding Bipedalism 2026 2026-01-07
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426232122 Primate gut microbiota induce evolutionarily salient changes in mouse neurodevelopment A. DeCasien et al. 0 Gut Microbiome 2026 2026-01-07
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02945-8 Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates C. Coxshall et al. 0 Homosexual Behavior 2026 2026-01-15
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0534 An ancient enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage promotes neural development and cognitive flexibility K. Tan et al. 0 Human Accelerated Regions (HARs) and Changes in Conserved Sequences 2025 2025-08-18
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416525000492 Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago E. Williams et al. 0 2025 2025-07-08
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60140-6 Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave Z. Jacobs et al. 0 2025 2025-05-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09811-4 Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes M. Jakobsson et al. 0 2025 2025-12-09
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/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://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://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://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://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.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://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.15318 The natural history of social bonds J. Silk 0 2025 2025-04-23
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/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://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.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://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://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://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.273/ Alternative crossings into and out of Africa since 30,000 BP J. Dobson et al. 0 2025 2025-07-29
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09154-0 Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal E. Hallett et al. 0 2025 2025-06-19
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.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.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/s41467-025-56154-9 Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago S. Curran et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225011241 Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality J. Feldblum et al. 0 2025 2025-07-16
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0053 Stone-assisted drumming in Western chimpanzees and its implications for communication and cultural transmission S. van Loon et al. 0 2025 2025-05-29
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70177 The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus J. Martin et al. 0 2025 2025-12-16
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125001659 Vegetation and climate changes during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the southwestern Mediterranean: What happened to the last Neanderthals during Heinrich stadial 4? L. Charton et al. 0 2025 2025-04-30
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://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/S0047248425000867 New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania T. Harrison et al. 0 2025 2025-10-14
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://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.70002 Targeting the Hunting Hypothesis: Review of Evidence From the Hadza J. O'Connell et al. 0 2025 2025-05-14
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://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://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.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.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.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.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.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1561078/full Foraging strategy and tree structure as drivers of arboreality and suspensory behaviour in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees R. Drummond-Clarke et al. 0 2025 2025-08-05
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.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://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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X25000887 Polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA I. Mathieson 0 2025 2025-09-26
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://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2425166122 A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms M. Inbar et al. 0 2025 2025-08-26
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-025-00208-3#citeas Nubian Levallois Cores from MIS 5 Alluvial Terraces in the Negev Desert: New Insights into the Middle Paleolithic in the Arid Regions of the Southern Levant M. Oron et al. 0 2025 2025-02-05
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70033 Look past the cooperative eye hypothesis: reconsidering the evolution of human eye appearance J. Perea‐García et al. 0 Sclera Pigmentation 2025 2025-07-24
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9539 Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus P. Madupe et al. 0 2025 2025-06-05
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.28.651083v1 Regulatory logic of human cortex evolution by combinatorial perturbations A. Skaros et al. 0 2025 2025-05-07
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://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-90458-5 Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication I. Davidson 0 2025 2025-08-12
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01919-1 Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago J. Mercader et al. 0 2025 2025-01-16
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-025-09494-w Costs of Early Stone Toolmaking cannot Establish the Presence of Know-how Copying C. Tennie et al. 0 Cultural Transmission, Tool Making 2025 2025-07-08
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00111-9 An ancient regulatory variant of ACSF3 influences the coevolution of increased human height and basal metabolic rate via metabolic homeostasis Y. Zhang et al. 0 2025 2025-05-29
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000193 New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain) N. Torres-Tamayo et al. 0 Pelvic Height and Iliac Flare 2025 2025-04-30
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.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://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://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://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://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/s41467-025-59366-1 Evolutionary dynamics of behavioral motivations for cooperation Q. Su et al. 0 2025 2025-05-07
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://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/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.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://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://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.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00235-6 LINE-1 retrotransposons mediate cis-acting transcriptional control in human pluripotent stem cells and regulate early brain development A. Adami et al. 0 2025 2025-08-26
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000806 The hominin teeth from the late Middle Pleistocene Hualongdong site, China X. Wu et al. 0 2025 2025-07-29
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657870v1.full.pdf+html Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years M. Colucci et al. 0 2025 2025-06-10
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.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.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09348-6 Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene B. Hakim et al. 0 2025 2025-08-26
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01594-X Socially contagious urination in chimpanzees E. Onishi et al. 0 2025 2025-01-22
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.70003 The Placental Steroid Hypothesis of Human Brain Evolution A. Tsompanidis et al. 0 2025 2025-07-16
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842500034X Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials M. Malherbe et al. 0 2025 2025-05-29
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
https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article/46/Supplement_1/S298/8102075 The Selection Through Burn Injury Hypothesis: How Burn Injuries Shaped Human Evolution J. Cuddihy et al. 0 Control of Fire 2025 2025-04-30
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

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