CARTA Member Publications

CARTA encourages transdisciplinary research to advance our understanding of human origins and provides a forum for researchers from disparate fields "to explore and explain the human phenomenon.” This page lists select publications with one or more CARTA member authors.

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2026

Jaratlerdsiri, W, Soh, PXY, Gong, T, Jiang, J, Simayi, Z, Petersen, DC, Holland, E, Chan, EKF, Theron, KE, Haacke, WHG, Förtsch, HEA, Bornman, MSRiana, Thomas, DM, Mphahlele, J, Hayes, VM. A catalogue of early diverged contemporary human genome variation reveals distinct Khoe-San populations. Nature Communications. 2026;17(1).
Kim, K, Pfennig, A, Syed, SA, Moskwa, N, Oliveira, NAJ, Pham, Q, Hallast, P, Yilmaz, F, McDonough, JA, Norton, HL, Akey, JM, Lee, C. A Denisovan-derived Alu insertion in OCA2 contributes to pigmentation diversity in present-day Melanesians. 2026.
Massilani, D, Peyrégne, S, Iasi, LNM, de Filippo, C, Mafessoni, F, Mesa, ABossoms, Sümer, AP, Swiel, Y, Popli, D, Silverman, S, Boyle, MJames, Kozlikin, MB, Shunkov, MV, Derevianko, AP, Higham, T, Douka, K, Meyer, M, Zeberg, H, Kelso, J, Pääbo, S. A high-coverage Neandertal genome from the Altai Mountains reveals population structure among Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2026;123(13).
Alemseged, Z, Spoor, F, Reed, D, W. Barr, A, Geraads, D, Bobe, R, Wynn, JG. Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus. Nature. 2026.
Fotiadou, CM, Pedersen, JBorre, Rougier, H, Roksandic, M, Spyrou, MA, Nägele, K, Reiter, E, Bocherens, H, Kandel, AW, Haidle, MN, Streicher, TP, Conard, NJ, Schilt, F, Godinho, RMiguel, Uthmeier, T, Doyon, L, Semal, P, Krause, J, Barbieri, A, Mihailović, D, Crevecoeur, I, Posth, C. Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2026;123(13).
Hunter, LE, Tocheri, MW, Orr, CM, Patel, BA, Alemseged, Z. Did modern human carpal morphology evolve from knuckle walking traits?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2026;293(2071).
Marsh, WA, Scarsbrook, L, Yüncü, E, Hodgson, L, Lin, AT, De Iorio, M, Thalmann, O, Thomas, MG, Goor, M, Bergström, A, Noseda, A, Amiri, S, Biglari, F, Borić, D, Bougiouri, K, Carmagnini, A, Gianni, M, Higham, T, Lebrasseur, O, Linderholm, A, Mannino, MA, Middleton, C, Mustafaoğlu, G, Perri, A, Peters, J, Richards, M, Sarıtaş, Ö, Skoglund, P, Stevens, RE, Stringer, C, et al. Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. Nature. 2026;651(8107):995-1003.
Cerezo-Román, JI, Sawchuk, E, Schilt, F, Bertacchi, A, Buckley, G, Chibisa, E, B. Fahey, P, Falchenberg, SGunilla He, Kaliba, P, Kennett, DJ, Mercader, J, Pargeter, J, Stock, J, Szymanski, R, Thompson, JC. Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa. Science Advances. 2026;12(1).
Williams, SA, Wang, X, Araiza, I, Guerra, JS, Meyer, MR, Spear, JK. Earliest evidence of hominin bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Science Advances. 2026;12(1).
Hublin, J, Lefèvre, D, Perini, S, Muttoni, G, Skinner, MM, Bailey, SE, Freidline, S, Gunz, P, Rué, M, Graoui, MEl, Geraads, D, Daujeard, C, Davies, TW, Kupczik, K, Imbrasas, MD, Ortiz, A, Falguères, C, Shao, Q, Bahain, J, Queffelec, A, Gómez-Olivencia, A, Benazzi, S, Le Cabec, A, Sorrentino, R, Bergmann, I, Sbihi-Alaoui, F, Gallotti, R, Raynal, J, Mohib, A. Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage. Nature. 2026.
Picin, A, Hajdinjak, M, Nowaczewska, W, Blaauw, M, Bayliss, A, Fewlass, H, Heaton, TJ, Reimer, PJ, Southon, JRichard, van der Plicht, J, Wacker, L, Oxilia, G, Sorrentino, R, Vazzana, A, Piccirilli, E, Benazzi, S, Binkowski, M, Dąbrowski, P, Marciszak, A, Socha, P, Stefaniak, K, Żarski, M, Wiśniewski, A, Kelso, J, Hublin, J, Nadachowski, A, Talamo, S. First multi-individual Neanderthal mitogenomes from north of the Carpathians. Current Biology. 2026.
Bergström, A, Furtwängler, A, Johnston, S, Rosengren, E, Breidenstein, A, Booth, T, McCabe, JB, Peto, J, Williams, M, Kelly, M, Tait, F, Baumann, C, Radzeviciute, R, Barrington, C, Anastasiadou, K, Gilardet, A, Glocke, I, Sherman, M, Brativnyk, A, Herbig, A, Prüfer, K, Pfrengle, S, Gretzinger, J, Feuerborn, TR, Reiter, E, Linderholm, A, Charlton, S, Racimo, F, Mikkola, L, Anderson-Whymark, H, et al. Genomic history of early dogs in Europe. Nature. 2026;651(8107):986-994.
Orr, CM, Baker, SE, Hobbs, TE, Lague, MR, Leece, AB, Martin, JM, Nalley, TK, Patel, BA, Prang, TC, Schwartz, GT, Tocheri, MW, Strait, DS, Herries, AIR. Hominin postcranial remains from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa. The Anatomical Record. 2026.
Platt, A, Harris, DN, Tishkoff, SA. Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased. Science. 2026;391(6788):922-925.
Preuss, TM, Sherwood, CC. Introduction to a flourishing new science of brain evolution. In: Evolution of Nervous Systems, Third Edition. 2026;4:1-9.
Zhu, Q, Zhang, J, Zhou, W, Liang, S, Wang, S, Cai, X, Li, F, Li, J, Zhang, G, Feng, H, Fu, Q, Akey, JM, Zhang, F, Jin, L, Xu, S, Zheng, H, Chen, L. Introgressed mitochondrial fragments from archaic hominins alter nuclear genome function in modern humans. Science Advances. 2026;12(6).
Sandel, AA, He, Y, Ren, J, Kei, YLun, Lee, KC, Clark, IR, Reddy, RB, Negrey, JD, Birungi, C, Apamaku, BA, Kanweri, D, Kalunga, D, Aliganyira, C, Ramírez-Amaya, S, Nakayima, P, Katumba, R, Kamugyisha, B, Acosta-Florez, D, van Boekholt, B, Mbabazi, G, Akamumpa, E, Namaganda, S, Tumusiime, A, Angedakin, S, Reinert, G, Madrid-Padilla, O, Cucuringu, M, Wipf, D, Langergraber, KE, Watts, DP, et al. Lethal conflict after group fission in wild chimpanzees. Science. 2026;392(6794):216-220.
Khan, YT, Tsompanidis, A, Radecki, MA, Allison, C, Lai, M, Bethlehem, RAI, Baron-Cohen, S. Mapping brain growth and sex differences across prenatal to postnatal development. Scientific Reports. 2026;16(1).
M. Marin-Monfort, D, Shaw, CL, Natalio, F, Grossman, L, Andrews, P, Campos, J, García-Morato, S, Pereira, JM, Pons, A, Chazan, M, Horwitz, LKolska, Fernández-Jalvo, Y. New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa). PLOS One. 2026;21(6):e0347480.
DeCasien, AR, Aronoff, JE, Mallott, EK, Kuthyar, S, Chitta, S, Layden, BT, Sardaro, MLSavo, Gray, S, Williams, LE, Liechty, ER, Lee, HM, Lee, W, Curley, JP, Kuzawa, CW, Amato, KR. Primate gut microbiota induce evolutionarily salient changes in mouse neurodevelopment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2026;123(2).
Been, E, Hovers, E, Rak, Y, Le Cabec, A, Dean, C, Barash, A. Rapid growth in a Neandertal infant from Amud Cave in Israel. Current Biology. 2026;36(9).
Martín-Francés, L, Martinón-Torres, M, Lozano, M, Hernaiz-García, M, Arsuaga, JLuis, De Castro, JMaria Berm, Fiorenza, L. Reconstructing dietary preferences in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos population: A molar macrowear perspective. Journal of Human Evolution. 2026;211:103797.
Orfanou, E, Ghalichi, A, Rohrlach, AB, Paust, E, Valtueña, AAndrades, Ernée, M, Furmanek, M, Hałuszko, A, Hermes, T, Himmel, M, Ilgner, J, Krause, J, Küßner, M, Lamnidis, TChristos, Lucas, M, Malyková, DAdámková, Meller, H, Neumann, GU, Papac, L, Penske, S, Salinger, M, Schrader, SA, Schunke, T, Semerau, L, Smejtek, L, Traverso, L, Zach, B, Spengler, R, Stockhammer, PW, Wahl, J, et al. Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses. Nature Communications. 2026;17(1).
Juston, J, Kalyan, B, Ajit, V, Pascal, G. Red Meat in Human Evolution, Health, and Disease: From A Blessing to A Curse?. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 2026;101(2):85 - 146.
Fuentes, A, French, JC, Hawks, J, Kissel, M, Spikins, P. Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes. Journal of Archaeological Science. 2026;185:106441.

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