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.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1271854 Music as aposematic signal: predator defense strategies in early human evolution J. Jordania 0 Music 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322883121 Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers B. Hewlett et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2024 2024-11-22
https://brill.com/view/journals/ijfp/95/3/article-p211_3.xml Characterizing the vaginal microbiome in a sexually fluid primate (Pan paniscus). S. Samartino et al. 0 2024 2024-10-21
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02532-3 9,000 years of genetic continuity in southernmost Africa demonstrated at Oakhurst rockshelter J. Gretzinger et al. 0 2024 2024-09-20
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001483 Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I) J. Aramendi et al. 0 Striding Bipedalism 2024 2024-08-08
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1768 Recurrent gene flow between Neanderthals and modern humans over the past 200,000 years L. Li et al. 0 2024 2024-07-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02071-8 Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency. S. Berdugo et al. 0 2024 2025-01-18
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14115 Disparate and parallel craniofacial climatic adaptations in native populations of Asia, North America, and South America A. Evteev et al. 0 Prognathism 2024 2024-08-27
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/4/3/14 The Evolution of Primate Litter Size J. McBride et al. 0 Twinning Frequency 2024 2024-08-02
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02593-7 Enrichment of a subset of Neanderthal polymorphisms in autistic probands and siblings R. Pauly et al. 0 Autism Spectrum Disorders 2024 2024-06-13
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02390-z Diversity-dependent speciation and extinction in hominins L. van Holstein et al. 0 2024 2024-04-17
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404632121 Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia O. Barzilai et al. 0 Art, Symbolic Representation 2024 2024-12-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08205-2 Dental evidence for extended growth in early Homo from Dmanisi C. Zollikofer et al. 0 Adolescent Growth Spurt, Growth of Enamel and Dentine 2024 2024-11-14
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://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25027 Temporal lobe evolution in Hominidae and the origin of human lobe proportions A. Pearson et al. 0 Brain Size, Volume of Temporal Lobe White Matter 2024 2024-10-10
http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2024/03/08/gutjnl-2023-331594.abstract PNPLA3 fatty liver allele was fixed in Neanderthals and segregates neutrally in humans A. Geier et al. 0 2024 2024-03-15
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/expanding-the-causal-menu-an-interventionist-perspective-on-explaining-human-behavioral-evolution/2F04DB41767ECC180128342C40582338 Expanding the causal menu: An interventionist perspective on explaining human behavioural evolution R. Planer et al. 0 2024 2024-11-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53050-6#Abs1 Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini B. MacDonald et al. 0 Cultural Transmission 2024 2024-11-01
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/54436/chapter/481650804?login=true An Integrated Evolutionary Scenario for the Culturalization of the Human Body F. d’Errico et al. 0 Physical Modifications of the Body 2024 2024-09-26
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24981 Strontium isotopes track female dispersal in Taï chimpanzees R. Boucher et al. 0 2024 2024-06-07
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/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/s41559-024-02457-x Floristic diversity and its relationships with human land use varied regionally during the Holocene J. Gordon et al. 0 2024 2024-08-02
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp2887?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D43054923500555183784433604705816309749%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1719572570 Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress I. Gilligan et al. 0 2024 2024-07-02
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47787-3 New Late Pleistocene age for the Homo sapiens skeleton from Liujiang southern China J. Ge et al. 0 2024 2024-05-03
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224015665 Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis K. Bates et al. 0 Striding Bipedalism, Sustained Running Behavior 2024 2024-12-20
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2345 Spontaneous playful teasing in four great ape species I. Laumer et al. 0 2024 2025-06-26
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996124002079?via%3Dihub Role of cell metabolism in the pathophysiology of brain size-associated neurodevelopmental disorders L. Xing et al. 0 Brain Size 2024 2024-11-20
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0301002 Buronius manfredschmidi—A new small hominid from the early late Miocene of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany) M. Böhme et al. 0 2024 2024-06-13
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310545121 Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France L. Simões et al. 0 2024 2024-03-22
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324001547 Magnetic detection of anthropogenic fires at Xiaodong Rockshelter, Southwest China Y. Zheng et al. 0 Control of Fire 2024 2024-11-06
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/20/6/20240051/63617/Chimpanzees-Pan-troglodytes-recognize-that-their Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) recognize that their guesses could be wrong and can pass a two-cup disjunctive syllogism task B. Jones et al. 0 2024 2026-01-07
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380465161_Defense_Strategies_in_Early_Human_Evolution Defense Strategies in Early Human Evolution J. Jordania 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1673852724001814 A multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of facial features and its application in predicting archaic human features S. Du et al. 0 2024 2024-07-23
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409674121 Metabolic scaling, energy allocation tradeoffs, and the evolution of humans’ unique metabolism A. Yegian et al. 0 2024 2024-11-22
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/e0a1b1f4-cff7-4c21-b2de-30d53506e90c The conservation of Shanidar Z at a glance L. López-Polín et al. 0 2024 2024-10-20
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado2733 The uniqueness of human vulnerability to brain aging in great ape evolution S. Vickery et al. 0 Cortical Morphology 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001628 New Neanderthal remains from Axlor cave (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula) S. Bailey et al. 0 2024 2024-08-08
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07612-9 Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave H. Xia et al. 0 2024 2024-07-12
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm9797 Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report Y. Ozaki et al. 0 Music 2024 2024-05-17
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/s41586-023-06923-7 Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago D. Mylopotamitaki et al. 0 2024 2024-06-13
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-024-09640-1 Homo sapiens and Neanderthal Use of Space at Riparo Bombrini (Liguria, Italy) A. Vallerand et al. 0 2024 2024-04-11
https://peerj.com/articles/18484/# Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task E. Howard-Spink et al. 0 Tool Manufacture and Use 2024 2024-12-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53852-8 Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift D. Pandey et al. 0 2024 2024-11-13
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk7898 The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions T. Matthews et al. 0 2024 2024-10-10
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409542121 Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization T. Püschel et al. 0 Brain Size 2024 2024-11-27
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/732354#d27768543e1 Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively? E. Morin et al. 0 Organized Hunting for Meat 2024 2024-11-01
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818124002327 The expression of the MIS 12 glacial stage in Southeastern Europe and its impact over the Middle Pleistocene hominins in Megalopolis Basin (Greece) G. Butiseacă et al. 0 2024 2024-09-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02470-0 What we know and do not know after the first decade of Homo naledi P. Pettitt et al. 0 2024 2024-08-08
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.ado3807 Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia N. Sala et al. 0 2024 2024-07-19
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.13.593955v1.full Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans L. Iasi et al. 0 2024 2024-06-07
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01284-3 Deep genetic substructure within bonobos S. Han et al. 0 2024 2024-10-17
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X24001770 Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction L. Slimak et al. 0 2024 2024-09-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424000745 Diverse bone-calcium isotope compositions in Neandertals suggest different dietary strategies P. Dodat et al. 0 2024 2024-08-02
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn9310 The child who lived: Down syndrome among Neanderthals? M. Conde-Valverde et al. 0 Care of the Infirm and Elderly, Paternal Care 2024 2024-06-27
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco Z. Moubtahij et al. 0 2024 2024-05-03
https://academic.oup.com/evolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae033/7900502?login=true Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Speciation Complexity in Palaeoanthropology A. Meneganzin et al. 0 2024 2024-12-20
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-112122-032521 What Makes Us Human: Insights from the Evolution and Development of the Human Neocortex T. Namba et al. 0 ARHGAP11B (Rho GTPase Activating Protein 11B) 2024 2024-11-20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379124002105 The oldest fossil hominin from Italy: Reassessment of the femoral diaphysis from Venosa-Notarchirico in its Acheulean context I. Micarelli et al. 0 2024 2024-06-13
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.cambridge.org/core/product/B3C2D400F3F80A7A0162D9035C9C2804 Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia K. Kelley et al. 0 2024 2024-11-06
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440324001067 Living on the edge: Abric Pizarro, a MIS 4 Neanderthal site in the lowermost foothills of the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees (Lleida, Iberian Peninsula) S. Carro et al. 0 2024 2024-08-16
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/15/6/767#:~:text=We%20find%20that%20chimpanzees%2C%20gorillas,divergence%20of%20humans%20from%20chimpanzees Novel Evolution of Mineralocorticoid Receptor in Humans Compared to Chimpanzees, Gorillas, and Orangutans Y. Katsu et al. 0 2024 2024-07-23
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312823002962?via%3Dihub Molecular de-extinction of ancient antimicrobial peptides enabled by machine learning. J. Maasch et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10333124/ Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal. K. Niang et al. 0 2023 2024-08-02
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001434?via%3Dihub No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art. M. Martinón-Torres et al. 0 2023 2023-12-07
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/12/1455 The Distribution and Biogenic Origins of Zinc in the Mineralised Tooth Tissues of Modern and Fossil Hominoids: Implications for Life History, Diet and Taphonomy M. Dean et al. 0 Enamel Structure and Enamel Thickness, Growth of Enamel and Dentine 2023 2024-07-23
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi3055 The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol). F. Martínez-Sevilla et al. 0 2023 2023-10-25
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-022-00568-4 Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. A. Pollen et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018223004042 Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals K. Sokolowski et al. 0 2023 2023-09-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02014-y Evolution and implications of de novo genes in humans. L. Broeils et al. 0 2023 2023-03-23
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248422001828 White sclera is present in chimpanzees and other mammals I. Clark et al. 0 Sclera Pigmentation, Visual-Manual Communication 2023 2023-01-29
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003552123001061 The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review T. Pereira et al. 0 2023 2023-12-06
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition. W. Hu et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5007 Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient human footprints at White Sands. J. Pigati et al. 0 2023 2023-10-25
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16986 Barriers to chimpanzee gene flow at the south-east edge of their distribution. N. Bonnin et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2023.2249585 Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast C. Helm et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo7452 Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus T. Plummer et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2023 2023-02-10
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2023.866407 An HLA map of the world: A comparison of HLA frequencies in 200 worldwide populations reveals diverse patterns for class I and class II E. Arrieta-Bolaños et al. 0 2023 2024-09-12
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before . E. Pearce 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://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37531709 Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China. X. Wu et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000355212300047X The emergence and distribution of early modern human in Indonesia H. Widianto et al. 0 2023 2023-09-26
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01987-0 A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum. V. Villalba-Mouco et al. 0 2023 2023-03-23
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.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abn8197?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. H. Gao et al. 0 2023 2023-09-12
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01970-1 A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) M. Mussi et al. 0 Tool Making, Tool Manufacture and Use 2023 2023-01-25
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223013155?via%3Dihub Diverse African genomes reveal selection on ancient modern human introgressions in Neanderthals. D. Harris et al. 0 2023 2023-10-25
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/6/1/20 The Role of Large Mammals as Vitamin C Sources for MIS 3 Hominins J. Guil-Guerrero 0 2023 2024-07-23
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.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fearc.2023.1097815 The exploitation of crabs by Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals: The evidence from Gruta da Figueira Brava (Portugal) M. Nabais et al. 0 Cooking 2023 2023-02-10
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://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://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adj3524?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain. B. Mariani et al. 0 2023 2023-12-07
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

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