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Differential changes in steroid hormones before competition in bonobos and chimpanzees.

Our inner Neandertal.

Profile: Dolores Piperno. In archaeobotanist's hands, tiny fossils yield big answers.

Paleoanthropology. Lucy's 'big brother' reveals new facets of her species.

High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates.

A unique hominin menu dated to 1.95 million years ago.

Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya.

Australopithecus sediba: a new species of Homo-like australopith from South Africa.

Paleoanthropology. Candidate human ancestor from South Africa sparks praise and debate.

Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from southern Africa.

Evolution of behavior. Did working memory spark creative culture?

Chimpanzee research today. Boxed about the ears, ape language research field is still standing.

Hominoid visual brain structure volumes and the position of the lunate sulcus.

Craniofacial biomechanics and functional and dietary inferences in hominin paleontology.

Human evolution. Ancient DNA from Siberia fingers a possible new human lineage.

[Ardipithecus ramidus, another link in the Descent of Man].

Heavy brows, high art.

Geometric morphometric analyses of hominid proximal femora: taxonomic and phylogenetic considerations.

Antonio Ascenzi (1915-2000), a pathologist devoted to anthropology and paleopathology.

A hominoid distal tibia from the Miocene of Pakistan.