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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2025

Blain, H, Laplana, C, Sánchez-Bandera, C, Mielgo, C, Blanco-Lapaz, Á, Marquina-Blasco, R, Fagoaga, A, Bisbal-Chinesta, JFrancesc, Martín-Perea, DManuel, Falguères, C, Higham, T, Zapata, MBlanca Rui, García, MJosé Gil, Sevilla, P, Huguet, R, Márquez, B, Pérez-González, A, Arsuaga, JLuis, Baquedano, E. New paleoecological insights for the Late Pleistocene Neanderthal mountain occurrence at Buena Pinta Cave (Iberian Central System, Pinilla-del-Valle, Madrid, Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews. 2025;362:109355.
Baab, KL, Kaifu, Y, Freidline, SE, Rogers, MJ, Semaw, S. New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1).
Falguères, C, Shao, Q, Perrenoud, C, Stringer, C, Tombret, O, Garbé, L, Darlas, A. New U-series dates on the Petralona cranium, a key fossil in European human evolution. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;206:103732.
Graff, A, Blasi, DE, Ringen, EJ, Bajić, V, Bavelier, D, Shimizu, KK, Pakendorf, B, Barbieri, C, Bickel, B. Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact. Science Advances. 2025;11(35).
Jacobs, Z, Zavala, EI, Li, B, O’Gorman, K, Shunkov, MV, Kozlikin, MB, Derevianko, AP, Uliyanov, VA, Goldberg, P, Agadjanian, AK, Vasiliev, SK, Brink, F, Peyrégne, S, Slon, V, Pääbo, S, Kelso, J, Meyer, M, Roberts, RG. Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1):4738.
Mathieson, I. Polygenic prediction of human complex traits using ancient DNA. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 2025;95:102396.
Cazenave, M, Pina, M, Hammond, AS, Böhme, M, Begun, DR, Spassov, N, Gazabón, AVecino, Zanolli, C, Bergeret-Medina, A, Marchi, D, Macchiarelli, R, Wood, B. Postcranial evidence does not support habitual bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis: A reply to Daver et al. (2022). Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;198:103557.
Pal, A, Noble, MA, Morales, M, Pal, R, Baumgartner, M, Yang, JWon, Yim, KM, Uebbing, S, Noonan, JP. Resolving the three-dimensional interactome of human accelerated regions during human and chimpanzee neurodevelopment. Cell. 2025;188(6):1504-1523.e27.
Lankheet, I, Chowdhury, A, Tellgren-Roth, C, Jolly, C, Soares, AER, de Navascués, M, Pacchiarotti, S, Maselli, L, Kouarata, G, Donzo, J, Coetzee, V, de Castro, M, Ebbesen, P, Priehodová, E, Podgorná, E, Cerny, V, Green, ST, Harena, P, Bakrobena, L, Fomine, FLeypey Mat, Tolesa, ZGebreMaria, Mengesh, WAbebe, de Jongh, M, Soodyall, H, Bostoen, K, Barbieri, C, Larena, M, Malmström, H, Schlebusch, CM. Revisiting the African mtDNA Landscape: A Continental Update from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes. 2025.
Finestone, EM, Plummer, TW, Ditchfield, PW, Reeves, JS, Braun, DR, Bartilol, SK, Rotich, NKiprono, Bishop, LC, Oliver, JS, Kinyanjui, RN, Petraglia, MD, Breeze, PS, Lemorini, C, Caricola, I, Obondo, POwich, Potts, R. Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest Oldowan toolmakers. Science Advances. 2025;11(33).
Urciuoli, A, Martínez, I, Quam, R, Arsuaga, JLuis, Keeling, BA, Diez-Valero, J, Conde-Valverde, M. Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1).
Feldblum, JT, Walker, KK, Stanton, MA, Lonsdorf, EV, Mjungu, DC, Murray, CM, Pusey, AE. Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality. iScience. 2025;28(7):112863.
Jeong, H, Dishuck, PC, Yoo, D, Harvey, WT, Munson, KM, Lewis, AP, Kordosky, J, Garcia, GH, Yilmaz, F, Hallast, P, Lee, C, Pastinen, T, Eichler, EE. Structural polymorphism and diversity of human segmental duplications. Nature Genetics. 2025;57(2).
O'Connell, JF, Hawkes, K, Jones, NBlurton. Targeting the Hunting Hypothesis: Review of Evidence From the Hadza. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 2025;34(2).
Zanolli, C, Hublin, J, Kullmer, O, Schrenk, F, Kgasi, L, Tawane, M, Xing, S. Taxonomic revision of the SK 15 mandible based on bone and tooth structural organization. Journal of Human Evolution. 2025;200:103634.
Ju, X, Lee, S, Ågren, R, Machado, LCarlos, Xing, J, Azama, C, Roy, MC, Endo, T, Huttner, W, Siepel, A, Fukunaga, I, Zeberg, H, Pääbo, S. The activity and expression of adenylosuccinate lyase were reduced during modern human evolution, affecting brain and behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2025;122(32).
Huguet, R, Rodríguez-Álvarez, XPedro, Martinón-Torres, M, Vallverdú, J, López-García, JManuel, Lozano, M, Terradillos-Bernal, M, Expósito, I, Ollé, A, Santos, E, Saladié, P, de Lombera-Hermida, A, Moreno-Ribas, E, Martín-Francés, L, Allué, E, Núñez-Lahuerta, C, Van der Made, J, Galán, J, Blain, H, Cáceres, I, Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A, Bargalló, A, Mosquera, M, Parés, JMaria, Marín, J, Pineda, A, Lordkipanidze, D, Margveslashvili, A, Arsuaga, JLuis, Carbonell, E, et al. The earliest human face of Western Europe. Nature. 2025.
Libedinsky, I, Wei, Y, de Leeuw, C, Rilling, JK, Posthuma, D, van den Heuvel, MP. The emergence of genetic variants linked to brain and cognitive traits in human evolution. Cerebral Cortex. 2025;35(8).
Wegdell, F, Fryns, C, Schick, J, Nellissen, L, Laporte, M, Surbeck, M, van Noordwijk, MA, Masi, S, Hellwig, B, Willems, EP, Zuberbühler, K, van Schaik, CP, Stoll, S, Townsend, SW. The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes. Science Advances. 2025;11(26).
Aiello, LC. The Homo erectus Female Revisited. American Journal of Human Biology. 2025;37(6).
Villanea, FA, Peede, D, Kaufman, EJ, Añorve-Garibay, V, Chevy, ET, Villa-Islas, V, Witt, KE, Zeloni, R, Marnetto, D, Moorjani, P, Jay, F, Valdmanis, PN, Ávila-Arcos, MC, Huerta-Sánchez, E. The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection. Science. 2025;389(6762).
Silk, JB. The natural history of social bonds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2025.

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