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Source ↑	Type / peer review	Publication	Published	Used by	Reviewed
Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans ↗Zink & Lieberman Evidence notes and linked records Experimental work tests how meat and mechanical processing reduce chewing effort; it does not directly demonstrate one Homo erectus menu. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16990 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Homo erectus · Species	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Nature	2016	1 record	2026-08-13
Laetoli footprints ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Cited in the linked WAWL report. Publication details and peer-review status have not been fully recorded. https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/footprints/laetoli-footprint-trails Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Australopithecus afarensis · Species Report	ArchivePeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1 record	Not recorded
Lebanese faunal legacy collections uncover 400,000 years of woodland resilience and distinct hominin ecological strategies ↗Russo et al. Evidence notes and linked records Published paper. How the assemblages formed, and uncertainty about the context of older collections, limit detailed comparisons of behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03926-w Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Old Lebanese collections yield new ecological evidence · Research	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Communications Earth & Environment	2026-09-14	1 record	2026-10-09
Legacy interactive report ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Cited in the linked WAWL report. Publication details and peer-review status have not been fully recorded. /tools/heidelbergensis Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Middle Pleistocene Homo · Species Report	EditorialPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1 record	Not recorded
Linked source for “A connected Central European population” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.069 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. A connected Central European population · Discovery Homo neanderthalensis · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	2 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Chinese Homo erectus gains proteins” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10478-8 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Chinese Homo erectus gains proteins · Discovery Chinese Homo erectus gains a molecular signal · Research Homo erectus · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	3 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Eastern Asian archaic humans may require new names—or fewer names” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-02983-w Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Eastern Asian archaic humans may require new names—or fewer names · Research Middle Pleistocene Homo · Species Report	Scholarly SynthesisPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	2 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Enamel becomes a dietary archive” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10583-8 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Enamel becomes a dietary archive · Discovery Tooth nanostructure becomes a dietary archive · Research	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	2 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Ghost lineages become visible” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aef8874 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Ghost lineages become visible · Discovery TRACE tests archaic ancestry without reference genomes · Research Homo sapiens · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	3 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “MLP-3000 extends the known Paranthropus range” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09826-x Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. MLP-3000 extends the known Paranthropus range · Discovery Paranthropus boisei · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	2 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Protein complicates fossil sex estimates” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.05.044 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Protein complicates fossil sex estimates · Discovery Homo naledi enamel proteins complicate sex estimates · Research Homo naledi · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	3 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Several lineages overlapped in eastern Africa” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09390-4 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Several lineages overlapped in eastern Africa · Discovery Several early hominin lineages overlapped in eastern Africa · Research	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	2 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Thomas Quarry closes an African gap” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09914-y Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Thomas Quarry closes an African gap · Discovery Middle Pleistocene Homo · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	2 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Twenty-seven genomes widen the record” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10625-1 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Twenty-seven genomes widen the record · Discovery Twenty-seven late Neanderthals enter the genomic record · Research Homo neanderthalensis · Species Report	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	3 records	Not recorded
Linked source for “Wallacean rock art moves earlier” ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Inspect the linked records for the supported claims and their limits. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09968-y Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Wallacean rock art moves earlier · Discovery	Primary ResearchPeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1 record	Not recorded
Long-term ecological stability in the Pleistocene central Levantine corridor revealed by enamel isotopes from Lebanon ↗Russo et al. Evidence notes and linked records Published paper. Sparse samples and legacy collections cannot demonstrate uninterrupted occupation or uniform conditions throughout the Levant. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03925-x Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Tooth isotopes reveal a persistent Levantine refuge · Discovery Tooth isotopes reveal a persistent Levantine refuge · Research	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Communications Earth & Environment	2026-09-14	2 records	2026-10-09
Lubrano et al. · Faunal Evidence and the Duration of Occupation: A Statistical Approach to Neanderthal Archaeological Sites ↗Lubrano et al. Evidence notes and linked records Published paper. Overlapping activity blurs the signal; faunal indicators need other dating and contextual evidence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-026-09829-6 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Animal remains test how long Neanderthals stayed · Research Homo neanderthalensis · Species Report September 2026 in review · Period Review	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory	2026-09-18	3 records	2026-10-09
Mackintosh et al. · Intentional transmission of knowledge optimises cumulative cultural evolution ↗Mackintosh et al. Evidence notes and linked records Accepted manuscript. A contemporary task does not date the origin of teaching; the observed age pattern is not a universal developmental threshold. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-62734-6 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Choosing what to teach improves cumulative learning · Research September 2026 in review · Period Review 2026: the year so far · Period Review	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Scientific Reports	2026-09-19	3 records	2026-10-09
Martin et al. · New hominin cranial and mandibular remains from Drimolen Main Quarry, South Africa ↗Martin et al. Evidence notes and linked records Published paper. This supports an already proposed early presence in southern Africa; it does not locate the species’ origin or settle all taxonomic boundaries. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2026.2725046 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Homo erectus · Species Adult Drimolen fossil strengthens early erectus evidence · Discovery Adult Drimolen fossil strengthens early erectus evidence · Research September 2026 in review · Period Review 2026: the year so far · Period Review The 2020s so far: closer to people and places · Period Review	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Annals of Human Biology	2026-09-25	6 records	2026-10-09
Nature discovery ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Cited in the linked WAWL report. Publication details and peer-review status have not been fully recorded. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02999 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Homo floresiensis · Species Report	ArchivePeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1 record	Not recorded
Nature femur analysis ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Cited in the linked WAWL report. Publication details and peer-review status have not been fully recorded. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04901-z Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Sahelanthropus tchadensis · Species Report	ArchivePeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1 record	Not recorded
Neandertal energetics and clothing ↗Sørensen Evidence notes and linked records Energetic modeling and hide-working evidence support cold-weather clothing while garment form remains unknown. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.08.006 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Neanderthals · Species	Scholarly SynthesisPeer review: Yes	Journal of Human Evolution	2012	1 record	2026-08-12
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus ↗Weyrich et al. Evidence notes and linked records Dental calculus preserves dietary and microbial evidence; medicinal interpretations remain site-specific. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21674 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Neanderthals · Species	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Nature	2017	1 record	2026-08-12
Oldowan overview ↗Authors not recorded Evidence notes and linked records Cited in the linked WAWL report. Publication details and peer-review status have not been fully recorded. https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/stone-tools/early-stone-age-tools Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Homo habilis · Species Report	ArchivePeer review: Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	1 record	Not recorded
Prufer et al. · An early shift from wetland-adjacent to upland farming in the Maya lowlands ↗Prufer et al. Evidence notes and linked records Published paper. This is a regional sequence. C4 signatures alone are not crop-specific, and climatic or demographic drivers remain interpretations. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-04026-5 Link status: Not Checked. A registered link is not a verification of every claim. Belize soils record a move toward upland farming · Discovery Belize soils record a move toward upland farming · Research September 2026 in review · Period Review 2026: the year so far · Period Review	Primary ResearchPeer review: Yes	Communications Earth & Environment	2026-09-22	4 records	2026-10-09

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