Scholars@Duke
Charles M Musiba

Charles M Musiba

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology
Office hours Fall 2025:
Mondays - Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.  

Selected Publications

Change in biological nomenclature is overdue and possible.

Journal Article Nature ecology & evolution · August 2023 Full text Cite

Corrigendum: Aerial map demonstrates erosional patterns and changing topography at Isimila, Tanzania

Journal Article South African Journal of Science · January 27, 2022 Original article: https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5911 Due to an error in the reference plane, the elevation range shown for the digital elevation model (DEM) in Figure 5a is incorrect. The correct elevation range is 1629.41–1679.64 m. The DEM a ... Full text Cite

Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania.

Journal Article Nature · December 2021 Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in the human lineage1-3. Another trackway discovered two years ear ... Full text Open Access Cite

Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins

Journal Article Journal of Human Evolution · July 2021 Full text Cite

Aerial map demonstrates erosional patterns and changing topography at Isimila, Tanzania (with corrigendum)

Journal Article South African Journal of Science · July 30, 2019 Isimila is a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site located in southern Tanzania. The site is known for large surface assemblages of later Acheulean lithics such as hand axes, cleavers, scrapers and cores. While hominin remains have yet to be disco ... Full text Cite

The skull of Homo naledi

Journal Article Journal of Human Evolution · March 2017 Full text Cite

Geological and taphonomic context of excavations within the Rising Star cave system

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · March 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa.

Journal Article eLife · September 2015 We describe the physical context of the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave, South Africa, which contains the fossils of Homo naledi. Approximately 1550 specimens of hominin remains have been recovered from at least 15 individuals, representing a ... Full text Open Access Cite

Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa.

Journal Article eLife · September 2015 Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. This species is characterized by body mass and stature similar to small-bodied human po ... Full text Open Access Cite