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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Cosnefroy, Q, Crevecoeur, I, Semal, P, Hajdinjak, M, Mesa, ABossoms, Krause, J, Gnecchi-Ruscone, GAlberto, Posth, C, Bocherens, H, Devièse, T, Rougier, H. Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey. Scientific Reports. 2025;15(1).
McRae, RT, Wood, B. Hominin fossil inventory: Quantification and comparison of discrete regional and element representation among early African fossil hominins prior to the emergence of Homo erectus. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;198:103615.
Curran, SC, Drăgușin, V, Pobiner, B, Pante, M, Hellstrom, J, Woodhead, J, Croitor, R, Doboș, A, Gogol, SE, Ersek, V, Keevil, TL, Petculescu, A, Popescu, A, Robinson, C, Werdelin, L, Terhune, CE. Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1).
Kitagawa, K, Tejero, J, Yeshurun, R, Walter, R, Huber, H, Andrews, R, Magliozzi, N, Doyon, L. Homo sapiens could have hunted with bow and arrow from the onset of the early Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia. iScience. 2025, p.114270.
Jakobsson, M, Bernhardsson, C, McKenna, J, Hollfelder, N, Vicente, M, Edlund, H, Coutinho, A, Sjödin, P, Brink, J, Zipfel, B, Malmström, H, Lombard, M, Schlebusch, CM. Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes. Nature. 2025.
Stringer, C. Human evolution: The lonely Neanderthal?. Current Biology. 2025;35(1):R29-R31.
Schuh, A, Gunz, P, Villa, C, Maureille, B, Toussaint, M, Abrams, G, Hublin, J, Freidline, SE. Human midfacial growth pattern differs from that of Neanderthals and chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;202:103667.
Soto, DC, Uribe-Salazar, JM, Kaya, G, Valdarrago, R, Sekar, A, Haghani, NK, Hino, K, La, G, Mariano, NAnn F, Ingamells, C, Baraban, A, Jamal, Z, Turner, TN, Green, ED, Simó, S, Quon, G, Andrés, AM, Dennis, MY. Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution. Cell. 2025.
Courtenay, LAustin, d'Errico, F, Núñez, R, Blasi, DE. Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 2025;17(8).
Joannes-Boyau, R, de Souza, JSena, Arora, M, Austin, C, Westaway, K, Moffat, I, Wang, W, Liao, W, Zhang, Y, Adams, JW, Fiorenza, L, Dérognat, F, Moncel, M, Schwartz, GT, Bailey, M, Santos, FF dos, Guardia, GDA, Mercuri, RLV, Galante, PAF, Martins, AMA, Tsu, BL, Barnes, CA, Yates, J, Petroski, LPedro, Sanchez-Sanchez, SM, Oviedo, J, Herai, RH, Lemos, B, Tonge, M, Muotri, AR. Impact of intermittent lead exposure on hominid brain evolution. Science Advances. 2025;11(42).
Martin, JS, Beheim, B, Gurven, M, Kaplan, H, Stieglitz, J, Trumble, BC, Hooper, P, Cummings, D, Rodriguez, DEid, Jaeggi, AV. Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society. Science Advances. 2025;11(31).
Hecht, EE, Vijayakumar, S, Becker, Y, Hopkins, WD. Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1).
McCaffree, K, Moffett, MW. Interview with Mark Moffett for theory and society. 2025.
Kindler, L, Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S, Scherjon, F, Garcia-Moreno, A, Smith, GM, Pop, E, Speth, JD, Roebroeks, W. Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago. Science Advances. 2025;11(27).
Sun, W, Winnubst, J, Natrajan, M, Lai, C, Kajikawa, K, Bast, A, Michaelos, M, Gattoni, R, Stringer, C, Flickinger, D, Fitzgerald, JE, Spruston, N. Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus. Nature. 2025.
Miyagawa, S, Desalle, R, Nóbrega, VAugusto, Nitschke, R, Okumura, M, Tattersall, I. Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago. Frontiers in Psychology. 2025;16.
Stinchcomb, GE, Rogers, MJ, Semaw, S. Long-term hominin preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2025;352:109207.
Fuentes, A, Kissel, M, Spikins, P, Molopyane, K, Hawks, J, Berger, LR. Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications. 2025.
Macak, D, Lee, S, Nyman, T, Ampah-Korsah, H, Strandback, E, Pääbo, S, Zeberg, H. Muscle AMP deaminase activity was lower in Neandertals than in modern humans. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1).
Schulze, TA, Bovee, W, Loos, J, Lukumay, J, Oelze, VM, Siegel, N, Stewart, FA, Piel, AK. Mycophagy in Primates of the Issa Valley, Tanzania. Ecology and Evolution. 2025;15(10).
Ma, X, Lu, Y, Stoneking, M, Xu, S. Neanderthal adaptive introgression shaped LCT enhancer region diversity without linking to lactase persistence in East Asian populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2025;122(11):e2404393122.
Beasley, MM, Lesnik, JJ, Speth, JD. Neanderthals, hypercarnivores, and maggots: Insights from stable nitrogen isotopes. Science Advances. 2025;11(30).
Villmoare, B, Delezene, LK, Rector, AL, DiMaggio, EN, Campisano, CJ, Feary, DA, Ali, BMohammed, Chupik, D, Deino, AL, Garello, DI, Hayidara, MAhmeddin, Locke, EM, Omar, OAbdulla, Robinson, JR, Scott, E, Smail, IE, Terefe, KGeleta, Werdelin, L, Kimbel, WH, J. Arrowsmith, R, Reed, KE. New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia. Nature. 2025.
Haile-Selassie, Y, Schwartz, GT, Prang, TC, Saylor, BZ, Deino, A, Gibert, L, Ragni, A, Levin, NE. New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda. Nature. 2025.
Mongle, CS, Orr, CM, Tocheri, MW, Prang, TCody, Grine, FE, Feibel, C, Patel, BA, Laureijs, O, Hobbs, TE, Maiolino, S, Rossie, J, Mbogo, W, Plessis, Adu, Lonyericho, J, Huka, WWoto, Sale, H, Umuro, A, Yirgudo, P, Dalacha, I, Kirinya, M, Linga, E, Loki, R, Longaye, A, Longaye, M, Lonyericho, E, Loyapan, I, Nakudo, N, Nyete, C, Leakey, MG, Leakey, LN. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature. 2025.

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