Standout Papers
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Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample
2010 Standout
Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians
2020 StandoutScienceNobel
Genetic manipulation of Patescibacteria provides mechanistic insights into microbial dark matter and the epibiotic lifestyle
2023 StandoutNobel
The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents
2014
Multiplex amplification of the mammoth mitochondrial genome and the evolution of Elephantidae
2005 StandoutNatureNobel
Comparative morphometric study of the australopithecine vertebral series Stw-H8/H41
1998
The Neanderthal lower arm
2011
Vicariant Origin of Malagasy Reptiles Supports Late Cretaceous Antarctic Land Bridge
2006
Stature estimation from complete long bones in the Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)
2011
The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China
2015 Nature
Neandertal incisor beveling
1997
Human and Chimpanzee Gene Expression Differences Replicated in Mice Fed Different Diets
2008 StandoutNobel
Understanding Ancient Hominin Dispersals Using Artefactual Data: A Phylogeographic Analysis of Acheulean Handaxes
2009
Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: I—multiple grain data
2003
Announcing a Still Bay industry at Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2007
Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions
2013
Oldest Homo and Pliocene biogeography of the Malawi Rift
1993 Nature
A uniquely modern human pattern of endocranial development. Insights from a new cranial reconstruction of the Neandertal newborn from Mezmaiskaya
2012
Discrimination of extant Pan species and subspecies using the enamel–dentine junction morphology of lower molars
2009
Morphology of Australopithecus anamensis from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya
2001
The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia
2010 StandoutNatureNobel
A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos
2013 StandoutNatureNobel
Body mass and encephalization in Pleistocene Homo
1997 StandoutNature
Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans
1998
Implications of early hominid labyrinthine morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion
1994 Nature
New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany
2009 StandoutNature
Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia
2007 StandoutNatureNobel
An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language
2001 Standout
Body mass in comparative primatology
1997 Standout
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
2007 StandoutNature
Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins
2001 Nature
An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor
2015 StandoutNatureNobel
Morphological description and comparison of the dental remains from Atapuerca-Sima de los Huesos site (Spain)
2011
The delayed rise of present-day mammals
2007 StandoutNature
Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins
2016 StandoutNatureNobel
The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)
2013
The Neandertal vertebral column 1: The cervical spine
2013
The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula
1992 Nature
New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
2017 StandoutNature
Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota
2008
Body proportions of Homo habilis reviewed
2004
The evolutionary context of the first hominins
2011 Nature
Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences
2011 StandoutNature
The Sima de los Huesos crania (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). A comparative study
1997
The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages
2000 StandoutNature
Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens
2002
The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior
2000 Standout
Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution
2001 Nature
Hominin life history: reconstruction and evolution
2008
2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia
1997 StandoutNature
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age
2004
The Human Condition—A Molecular Approach
2014 StandoutNobel
Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA
2006 StandoutNatureNobel
A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia
2004 Nature
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
2012 StandoutNature
Enamel-dentine junction (EDJ) morphology distinguishes the lower molars of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus
2008
The Spy VI child: A newly discovered Neandertal infant
2010
Endurance running and the evolution of Homo
2004 StandoutNature
Dental remains from Dmanisi (Republic of Georgia): Morphological analysis and comparative study
2008
Human eating behaviour in an evolutionary ecological context
2002
Hominoid dietary evolution
1991
The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective
2000 StandoutScience
The origin of modern anatomy: By speciation or intraspecific evolution?
2008
DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China
2013 StandoutNobel
Semilandmarks: a method for quantifying curves and surfaces
2013
Tempo and mode in human evolution.
1994
Systematic Pigment Use in the Middle Pleistocene of South‐Central Africa
2002
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
2009 StandoutScience
Isotopic Evidence for Neogene Hominid Paleoenvironments in the Kenya Rift Valley
1994 Science
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa
2002 StandoutScience
Behavioral ecological models of lithic technological change during the later Middle Stone Age of South Africa
2007
Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
2008 StandoutScience
Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity
2010 StandoutScience
Collagen fingerprinting of archaeological bone and teeth remains from Domuztepe, South Eastern Turkey
2011
A late Neandertal femur from Les Rochers-de-Villeneuve, France
2005 StandoutNobel
Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System
2012 StandoutScience
Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal
2007 StandoutNobel
The Neandertal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany
2002 StandoutNobel
A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa: The Question of the Fauresmith
2011
Genomic and cranial phenotype data support multiple modern human dispersals from Africa and a southern route into Asia
2014
Reconstructing the DNA Methylation Maps of the Neandertal and the Denisovan
2014 StandoutScienceNobel
Predatory Dinosaur Remains from Madagascar: Implications for the Cretaceous Biogeography of Gondwana
1998 Science
A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans
1997 StandoutScience
Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals
2016 StandoutScienceNobel
The Evolution of Dinosaurs
1999 StandoutScience
Hominin teeth from the early L ate P leistocene site of X ujiayao, N orthern C hina
2014
The human cranium from Bodo, Ethiopia: evidence for speciation in the Middle Pleistocene?
1996
Tooth wear and dentoalveolar remodeling are key factors of morphological variation in the Dmanisi mandibles
2013
Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations
2018 StandoutScienceNobel
Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model
2006
Paleobiology and comparative morphology of a late Neandertal sample from El Sidrón, Asturias, Spain
2006
Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals
2022 StandoutScienceNobel
Triangulating Neanderthal cognition: A tale of not seeing the forest for the trees
2020
An Early Case of Color Symbolism
2003 Standout
Quantitative Analysis of the Timing of the Origin and Diversification of Extant Placental Orders
2001
Technical Note: Guidelines for the digital computation of 2D and 3D enamel thickness in hominoid teeth
2013
FIFTY YEARS OF LUMINESCENCE DATING*
2008
Thermoluminescence dating of a Stillbay–Howiesons Poort sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)
2008
Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary
1997 StandoutNature
Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals
2015 StandoutNobel
Plio-Pleistocene African Climate
1995 StandoutScience
Brain evolution inHomo:The “radiator” theory
1990
A Middle Jurassic mammal from Madagascar
1999 Nature
The Howiesons Poort Backed Artefacts from Klasies River: An Argument for Symbolic Behaviour
1999
Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation
2004 StandoutNobel
The Late Upper Paleolithic skeleton Villabruna 1 (Italy): a source of data on biology and behavior of a 14,000 year-old hunter.
2008
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
2003 Standout
Inactivation of CMP- N -acetylneuraminic acid hydroxylase occurred prior to brain expansion during human evolution
2002 StandoutNobel
Relative joint size and hominoid locomotor adaptations with implications for the evolution of hominid bipedalism
1988
Towards a theory of modern human origins: Geography, demography, and diversity in recent human evolution
1998
The Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations: Paradigms for a New Millennium
2001
The archeology of modern human origins
1992
Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub‐Saharan Africa
2002
Size Variation in Middle Pleistocene Humans
1997 Science
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
2004 StandoutScience
Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of late Neandertals in North-Western Europe
2015
European early modern humans and the fate of the Neandertals
2007
Terrestrial apes and phylogenetic trees
2010
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
2015 StandoutScienceNobel
New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa
2008
Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
2016 StandoutNobel
Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa
2008
Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution
2012 StandoutNobel
The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe
2005
Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain
2015
An early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, Zhoukoudian, China
2007
Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture
2010 StandoutScienceNobel
Complete mitochondrial DNA geonome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis
2001
The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe
2005
Diaphyseal Cross-sectional Geometry of Near Eastern Middle Palaeolithic Humans: The Femur
1999
Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa
1996
The Human Genus
1999 Science
Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes
2009 StandoutScienceNobel
Allometry, merism, and tooth shape of the upper deciduous M2 and permanent M1
2014
Works of Frederick E. Grine being referenced
Additional human fossils from Klasies River Mouth, South Africa
1998
Molar enamel thickness in the Chacma Baboon, Papio ursinus (kerr 1792)
2005
Re-analysis of the hominid radii from Cave of Hearths and Klasies River Mouth, South Africa
1997
Human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1997–1998 excavations)
2000
Enamel thickness of deciduous and permanent molars in modern Homo sapiens
2004
Reconstruction of the late Pleistocene human skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa
2010
Cladistic analysis of early Homo crania from Swartkrans and Sterkfontein, South Africa
2008
Early hominid dental remains from Members 4 and 5 of the Sterkfontein Formation (1966–1996 excavations): Catalogue, individual associations, morphological descriptions and initial metrical analysis
2005
Middle Stone Age human fossils from Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa
2000
Taxonomic affinity of the early Homo cranium from Swartkrans, South Africa
1993
Morphology of the enamel-dentine junction in sections of anthropoid primate maxillary molars
2007
Middle Stone Age Stratigraphy and Excavations at Die Kelders Cave 1 (Western Cape Province, South Africa): the 1992, 1993, and 1995 Field Seasons
2000
Inferring hominoid and early hominid phylogeny using craniodental characters: the role of fossil taxa
2004
Morphometric variation in the papionin muzzle and the biochronology of the South African Plio‐Pleistocene karst cave deposits
2009
Fossil Homo femur from Berg Aukas, northern Namibia
1995
Compact bone distribution and biomechanics of early hominid mandibles
1991
A reappraisal of early hominid phylogeny
1997
A review of taurodontism with new data on indigenous southern African populations
2001
New 1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus maxilla from Sangiran (Central Java, Indonesia)
2011
A review of interproximal wear grooves on fossil hominin teeth with new evidence from Olduvai Gorge
2001
Ecogeographic variation in Neandertal dietary habits: Evidence from occlusal molar microwear texture analysis
2011
Early hominid dental pathology: Interproximal caries in 1.5 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans
1990
New hominid fossils from the Swartkrans formation (1979–1986 excavations): Craniodental specimens
1989
Early hominid diets from quantitative image analysis of dental microwear
1988 Nature
Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins
2005 Nature
Paleoanthropology, 2nd edition
2001
Diet in EarlyHomo: A Review of the Evidence and a New Model of Adaptive Versatility
2006
Analysis of individual, intraspecific and interspecific variability in quantitative parameters of caprine tooth enamel structure
1987
Incisor size and wear in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus
1991
Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines
2017
Subnasal morphological variation in extant hominoids and fossil hominids
1993
Three-dimensional molar enamel distribution and thickness in Australopithecus and Paranthropus
2008
Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels
2001 Standout
The 1992-1993 Excavations at the Die Kelders Middle and Later Stone Age Cave Site, South Africa
1997
New hominid fossils from Fejej, Southern Ethiopia
1991
Paleoanthropology, 2nd edition
2001
The 1992–1993 Excavations at the Die Kelders Middle and Later Stone Age Cave Site, South Africa
1997
Morphological affinities of the proximal ulna from Klasies River main site: archaic or modern?
1996
Dental evidence for dietary differences in Australopithecus and Paranthropus: a quantitative analysis of permanent molar microwear
1986
A description of the Omo I postcranial skeleton, including newly discovered fossils
2008
Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammals
1997 Nature
Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern Human Origins
2007 Science
Dating, archaeology and human fossils from the Middle Stone Age levels of Die Kelders, South Africa
1991