African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
Stay up-to-date with fellow researchers, projects, excavations and events. African Origins is an on-line community of scientists active in the study of human evolution and its context in Africa, the where origins of humankind lay. Registered users can browse though current research projects, all kinds of specific materials as photographs, grey literature and other documentation; and of course showcase their own. Note that our policy is not to send regular unsolicited emails.
Latest publications
Quaternary Africa
A quantification of calcaneal lateral plantar process position with implications for bipedal locomotion in Australopithecus
Eve K. Boyle, Ellison J. McNutt, Tomohiko Sasaki, … Jeremy M. DeSilva. Journal of Human Evolution, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 July 2018
Human evolution Africa
Oblique human symphyseal angle is associated with an evolutionary rate-shift early in the hominin clade
James D. Pampush, Jill E. Scott, Chris A. Robinson, Lucas K. Delezene. Journal of Human Evolution, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 July 2018
Forelimb morphology and substrate use in extant Cercopithecidae and the fossil primate community of the Hadar sequence, Ethiopia
Amy L. Rector, Marie Vergamini. Journal of Human Evolution, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 July 2018