Hominidae

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative analysis of temporomandibular joint morphology in the African apes. 
  • A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. 
  • A comprehensive survey of Retzius periodicities in fossil hominins and great apes. 
  • A modern human humerus from the early aurignacian of Vogelherdhöhle (Stetten, Germany). 
  • A partial pelvis of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • Abundant gene conversion between arms of palindromes in human and ape Y chromosomes. 
  • Adaptive sequence divergence forged new neurodevelopmental enhancers in humans. 
  • All great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii) and two-and-a-half-year-old children (Homo sapiens) discriminate appearance from reality. 
  • Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa. 
  • Ancestral population genomics: the coalescent hidden Markov model approach. 
  • Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively. 
  • Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation. 
  • Archaic and modern human distal humeral morphology. 
  • Are apes inequity averse? New data on the token-exchange paradigm. 
  • Are apes really inequity averse? 
  • Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of the genus Homo. 
  • Australopithecus sediba hand demonstrates mosaic evolution of locomotor and manipulative abilities. 
  • Australopithecus sediba: a new species of Homo-like australopith from South Africa. 
  • Behavioral cues that great apes use to forage for hidden food. 
  • Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' behavior from humans. 
  • Body size, brain size, and sexual dimorphism in Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber. 
  • Catarrhine hallucal metatarsals from the early Miocene site of Songhor, Kenya. 
  • Characterization of chimpanzee leukocyte alloantisera. 
  • Chewing efficiency and occlusal functional morphology in modern humans. 
  • Children conform to the behavior of peers; other great apes stick with what they know. 
  • Children, but not great apes, respect ownership. 
  • Chimpanzees help others with what they want; children help them with what they need. 
  • Climbing and the daily energy cost of locomotion in wild chimpanzees: implications for hominoid locomotor evolution. 
  • Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting. 
  • Considering the role of social dynamics and positional behavior in gestural communication research. 
  • Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis. 
  • Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids. 
  • Cytokine-Mediated Tissue Injury in Non-human Primate Models of Viral Infections. 
  • Dehydration and persistence hunting in Homo erectus. 
  • Dental microwear and diet: implications for determining the feeding behaviors of extinct primates, with a comment on the dietary pattern of Sivapithecus. 
  • Dental microwear texture analysis and diet in the Dmanisi hominins. 
  • Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzees. 
  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes? 
  • Dynamic functional evolution of an odorant receptor for sex-steroid-derived odors in primates. 
  • EMG of the human flexor pollicis longus muscle: implications for the evolution of hominid tool use. 
  • Economy and Endurance in Human Evolution. 
  • Emergence of the keratinocyte growth factor multigene family during the great ape radiation. 
  • Energetic and endurance constraints on great ape quadrupedalism and the benefits of hominin bipedalism. 
  • Evaluating morphometric body mass prediction equations with a juvenile human test sample: accuracy and applicability to small-bodied hominins. 
  • Evidence for an Asian origin of stem anthropoids. 
  • Evolution of water conservation in humans. 
  • Evolution: Does More Time Buy More Neurons? 
  • Extreme selective sweeps independently targeted the X chromosomes of the great apes. 
  • FOXP2 variation in great ape populations offers insight into the evolution of communication skills. 
  • Fatty acid composition of wild anthropoid primate milks. 
  • Femoral neck and shaft structure in Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber (Rising Star System, South Africa). 
  • First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India. 
  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of keratinocyte growth factor gene amplification and dispersion in evolution of great apes and humans. 
  • Food material properties and mandibular load resistance abilities in large-bodied hominoids. 
  • Founder cells shape brain evolution. 
  • Four reasons for scepticism about a human major transition in social individuality. 
  • Fracture mechanics, enamel thickness and the evolution of molar form in hominins. 
  • Genetic comparisons yield insight into the evolution of enamel thickness during human evolution. 
  • Genomic signatures of diet-related shifts during human origins. 
  • Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. 
  • Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from southern Africa. 
  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history. 
  • Great ape walking kinematics: Implications for hominoid evolution. 
  • Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions. 
  • Great apes are sensitive to prior reliability of an informant in a gaze following task. 
  • Great apes distinguish true from false beliefs in an interactive helping task. 
  • Great apes infer others' goals based on context. 
  • Great apes prefer cooked food. 
  • Great apes' understanding of other individuals' line of sight. 
  • HIV infection reveals widespread expansion of novel centromeric human endogenous retroviruses. 
  • Hand morphology, manipulation, and tool use in Neandertals and early modern humans of the Near East. 
  • Hip extensor mechanics and the evolution of walking and climbing capabilities in humans, apes, and fossil hominins. 
  • Homo naledi pelvic remains from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. 
  • Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. 
  • How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology. 
  • How to Compare Across Species. 
  • Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground. 
  • Hypoglossal canal size in living hominoids and the evolution of human speech. 
  • Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor. 
  • Isolation and characterization of human casein kinase I epsilon (CKI), a novel member of the CKI gene family. 
  • Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective. 
  • Life's a peach for anthropologists in atlanta. 
  • Locomotion and body proportions of the Saint-Césaire 1 Châtelperronian Neandertal. 
  • Locomotor anatomy and biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins. 
  • Makers of the early Aurignacian of Europe. 
  • Mandibular remains support taxonomic validity of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • Masticatory form and function in the African apes. 
  • Mechanics of heel-strike plantigrady in African apes. 
  • Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality. 
  • Morphological variation in Homo erectus and the origins of developmental plasticity. 
  • Morphology of the Homo naledi femora from Lesedi. 
  • Mortality rates among wild chimpanzees. 
  • Mosaic morphology in the thorax of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • Multivariate analyses of the hominid ulna from Klasies River mouth. 
  • Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations. 
  • Neandertal scapular glenoid morphology. 
  • New Australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper's Cave (Gauteng, South Africa). 
  • New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa. 
  • New fossils of Australopithecus sediba reveal a nearly complete lower back. 
  • Ontogenetic changes to metacarpal trabecular bone structure in mountain and western lowland gorillas. 
  • Organization of the human zeta-crystallin/quinone reductase gene (CRYZ). 
  • Paleo-oncology: the role of ancient remains in the study of cancer. 
  • Patterns of mandibular variation in Pan and Gorilla and implications for African ape taxonomy. 
  • Pelvic Morphology in Homo erectus and Early Homo. 
  • Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo. 
  • Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia. 
  • Postcranial robusticity in Homo. II: Humeral bilateral asymmetry and bone plasticity. 
  • Predation by female chimpanzees: Toward an understanding of sex differences in meat acquisition in the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo. 
  • Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations. 
  • Primate phageomes are structured by superhost phylogeny and environment. 
  • Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution. 
  • Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture. 
  • Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes. 
  • Reaching around barriers: the performance of the great apes and 3-5-year-old children. 
  • Reactions of human HL-A sera with orangutan and gorilla lymphocytes. 
  • Shanidar 3 Neandertal rib puncture wound and paleolithic weaponry. 
  • Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture. 
  • Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory. 
  • Studying extant species to model our past. 
  • Submentalizing Cannot Explain Belief-Based Action Anticipation in Apes. 
  • Subsistence activities and the sexual division of labor in the European Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic: evidence from upper limb enthesopathies. 
  • Summary of the proceedings of the second international workshop on transplantation genetics of nonhuman primates. 
  • The Laetoli footprints and early hominin locomotor kinematics. 
  • The Time Scale of Recombination Rate Evolution in Great Apes. 
  • The Vindija Neanderthal scapular glenoid fossa: comparative shape analysis suggests evo-devo changes among Neanderthals. 
  • The cervical spine of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • The coordination of attention and action in great apes and humans. 
  • The costal skeleton of Shanidar 3 and a reappraisal of Neandertal thoracic morphology. 
  • The dietary adaptations of European Miocene catarrhines. 
  • The ecology and epidemiology of malaria parasitism in wild chimpanzee reservoirs. 
  • The effect of high wear diets on the relative pulp volume of the lower molars. 
  • The fire of evolution: energy expenditure and ecology in primates and other endotherms. 
  • The foot and ankle of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • The foot of Homo naledi. 
  • The goal of ape pointing. 
  • The hand of Homo naledi. 
  • The hypoglossal canal and the origin of human vocal behavior. 
  • The lower limb and mechanics of walking in Australopithecus sediba. 
  • The metabolic cost of walking in humans, chimpanzees, and early hominins. 
  • The relationships among jaw-muscle fiber architecture, jaw morphology, and feeding behavior in extant apes and modern humans. 
  • The role of humans in the cognitive development of apes revisited. 
  • The thigh and leg of Homo naledi. 
  • The upper limb of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • The upper limb of Homo naledi. 
  • The vertebrae and ribs of Homo naledi. 
  • The vertebral column of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • Thirty years of great ape gestures. 
  • Throwing in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic: inferences from an analysis of humeral retroversion. 
  • To what extent did Neanderthals and modern humans interact? 
  • Trabecular architecture in the StW 352 fossil hominin calcaneus. 
  • Trabecular evidence for a human-like gait in Australopithecus africanus. 
  • Trabecular structure of the elbow reveals divergence in knuckle-walking biomechanical strategies of African apes. 
  • Understanding the evolution of the windlass mechanism of the human foot from comparative anatomy: Insights, obstacles, and future directions. 
  • Variation in brain size and ecology in Pongo. 
  • Viewpoints: feeding mechanics, diet, and dietary adaptations in early hominins. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology