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

Ma, Z, Starr, AL, Gokhman, D, Fraser, HB. The causes and consequences of human-specific DNA methylation. eLife. 2026;15(RP110575).
Preuss, TM, Sherwood, CC. The Evolution of Nervous Systems of Humans and Other Hominoids. Evolution of Nervous Systems, Third Edition. Elsevier. 2026.

2025

Eşiyok, N, Liutikaite, N, Haffner, C, Peters, J, Heide, S, Oegema, CEugster, Huttner, WB, Heide, M. A dyad of human-specific NBPF14 and NOTCH2NLB orchestrates cortical progenitor abundance crucial for human neocortex expansion. Science Advances. 2025;11(13).
Peyrégne, S, Massilani, D, Swiel, Y, Boyle, MJames, Iasi, LNM, Sümer, AP, Mesa, ABossoms, de Filippo, C, Viola, B, Essel, E, Nagel, S, Richter, J, Weihmann, A, Schellbach, B, Zeberg, H, Visagie, J, Kozlikin, MB, Shunkov, MV, Derevianko, AP, Prüfer, K, Peter, BM, Meyer, M, Pääbo, S, Kelso, J. A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan. 2025.
Tajima, Y, Vargas, CDM, Ito, K, Wang, W, Luo, J, Xing, J, Kuru, N, Machado, LCarlos, Siepel, A, Carroll, TS, Jarvis, ED, Darnell, RB. A humanized NOVA1 splicing factor alters mouse vocal communications. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1).
Suwa, G, Katoh, S, Hyodo, M, WoldeGabriel, G, Hart, WK, Delagnes, A, Asfaw, B, Beyene, Y. A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;207:103748.
Hurst, S, Holloway, R, Garvin, H, Bocko, G, Garcia, K, Cofran, Z, Hawks, J, Berger, L. A reanalysis of the Taung endocranial surface: Comparison with large samples of living hominids. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;200:103637.
Liang, S, Ren, T, Zhang, J, He, J, Wang, X, Jiang, X, He, Y, McCoy, RC, Fu, Q, Akey, JM, Mao, Y, Chen, L. A refined analysis of Neanderthal-introgressed sequences in modern humans with a complete reference genome. Genome Biology. 2025;26(1).
Lawrence, AB, Hammond, AS, Ward, CV. Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;200:103633.
Lea, AJ, Caldas, IV, Garske, KM, Gerlinger, ER, Arroyo, JP, Echwa, J, Gurven, M, Handley, C, Kahumbu, JC, Kamau, J, Kinyua, P, Lotukoi, F, Lopurudoi, A, Lowasa, S, Njeru, SN, Mallarino, R, Martins, DJ, Messer, PW, Miano, C, Muhoya, B, Peng, J, Phung, T, Rabinowitz, JD, Roichman, A, Siford, R, Stone, AC, Oill, AMTaravel, Mathew, S, Wilson, MA, Ayroles, JF. Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya. Science. 2025;389(6766):1246-1251.
Tan, K, Higgins, K, Liu, Q, Wilkinson, MF. An ancient enhancer rapidly evolving in the human lineage promotes neural development and cognitive flexibility. Science Advances. 2025;11(33).
Zhang, Y, Wang, J, Yi, C, Su, Y, Yin, Z, Zhang, S, Jin, L, Stoneking, M, Yang, J, Wang, K, Huang, H, Li, J, Fan, S. An ancient regulatory variant of ACSF3 influences the coevolution of increased human height and basal metabolic rate via metabolic homeostasis. Cell Genomics. 2025.
Yang, J, Iasi, LNM, Fu, Q, Cooke, NP, Kelso, J, Peyrégne, S, Peter, BM. An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry. Current Biology. 2025;35(20):4898-4908.e4.
Salem, N, van de Loosdrecht, MS, Sümer, APelin, Vai, S, Hübner, A, Peter, B, Bianco, RA, Lari, M, Modi, A, Al-Faloos, MFaraj Moha, Turjman, M, Bouzouggar, A, Tafuri, MAnne, Manzi, G, Rotunno, R, Prüfer, K, Ringbauer, H, Caramelli, D, di Lernia, S, Krause, J. Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage. 2025.
Tagore, D, Akey, JM. Archaic hominin admixture and its consequences for modern humans. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 2025;90:102280.
Prang, TC, Tocheri, MW, Patel, BA, Williams, SA, Orr, CM. Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins. Communications Biology. 2025;8(1).
Davidson, I. Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication. 2025.
Fröhlich, M, Aychet, J, Clark, PR, Crockford, C, Dezecache, G, Rebout, N, van Schaik, CP, Graham, KE. Assessing flexibility in meaning and context in non‐human communication. Biological Reviews. 2025.
Brooker, JS, Webb, CE, van Leeuwen, EJC, Kordon, S, de Waal, FBM, Clay, Z. Bonobos and chimpanzees overlap in sexual behaviour patterns during social tension. Royal Society Open Science. 2025;12(3).
Mishol, N, Herzlinger, G, Rak, Y, Smilanksy, U, Carmel, L, Gokhman, D. Candidate Denisovan fossils identified through gene regulatory phenotyping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2025;122(35).
Eleuteri, V, van der Werff, J, Wilhelm, W, Soldati, A, Crockford, C, Desai, N, Fedurek, P, Fitzgerald, M, Graham, KE, Koops, K, Pruetz, J, Samuni, L, Slocombe, K, Stoeger, A, Wilson, ML, Wittig, RM, Zuberbühler, K, Camara, HD, Mamy, G, Ravignani, A, Hobaiter, C. Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation. Current Biology. 2025.
Mine, JG, Dees, LC, Wilke, C, Willems, EP, Machanda, ZP, Muller, MN, Thompson, MEmery, Wrangham, RW, Scully, EJ, Langergraber, K, Stoll, S, Slocombe, KE, Townsend, SW. Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocal–visual communicative behavior. PLOS Biology. 2025;23(8):e3003270.
Farrell, HN, Alemseged, Z. Clavicular evidence for continued arboreality in Australopithecus afarensis. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;205:103714.
Balolia, KL, Wood, B. Comparative Context of Hard‐Tissue Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins: Implications for Alpha Taxonomy. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 2025;34(1).
Yoo, D, Rhie, A, Hebbar, P, Antonacci, F, Logsdon, GA, Solar, SJ, Antipov, D, Pickett, BD, Safonova, Y, Montinaro, F, Luo, Y, Malukiewicz, J, Storer, JM, Lin, J, Sequeira, AN, Mangan, RJ, Hickey, G, Anez, GMonfort, Balachandran, P, Bankevich, A, Beck, CR, Biddanda, A, Borchers, M, Bouffard, GG, Brannan, E, Brooks, SY, Carbone, L, Carrel, L, Chan, AP, Crawford, J, et al. Complete sequencing of ape genomes. Nature. 2025.

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