Considerable research supports the high frequency of right-handedness in living Homo
sapiens, with worldwide rates of approximately nine right- for every one left-hander. Right-…

… Manzi G., Gracia A., Arsuaga JL, Cranial discrete traits in the middle pleistocene humans
from Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). Does hypostosis represent any …

Ascertaining the timing of the peopling of Europe, after the first out-of-Africa demographic
expansion at the end of the Pliocene, is of great interest to paleoanthropologists. One of the …

… individual because lateral toral thinning characterizes subadult individuals of the Sima
de los Huesos sample, in contrast to the adults in which toral thickness is more uniform (Arsuaga …

Archaic and modern human frontal bones are known to be quite distinct externally, by both
conventional visual and metric evaluation. Internally this area of the skull has been …

The suggestion that the Neanderthal linage hominids had predominantly rich diet in meat
derived from large game is progressing towards views which propose a higher nutritional …

Ancient DNA makes it possible to observe natural selection directly by analysing samples
from populations before, during and after adaptation events. Here we report a genome-wide …

Although an inverse relationship is expected in ancient DNA samples between the number
of surviving DNA fragments and their length, ancient DNA sequencing libraries are strikingly …

Human fossil remains recovered from the TD6 level (Aurora stratum) of the lower Pleistocene
cave site of Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain, exhibit a unique combination of …

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 .
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage …