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  • The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteomic and evolutionary studies.

    • Daniel R. Green
    • Kevin T. Uno
    • Timothy P. Cleland
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 643, P: 712-718

  • DNA analysis of 6 individuals from eastern and south-central Africa spanning the past approximately 18,000 years, and of 28 previously published ancient individuals, provides genetic evidence supporting hypotheses of increasing regionalization at the end of the Pleistocene.

    • Mark Lipson
    • Elizabeth A. Sawchuk
    • Mary E. Prendergast
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 603, P: 290-296

  • Analysis of ancient human DNA from the Swahili coast reveals that predominantly African female ancestors and Asian male ancestors formed families after around ad 1000 and lived in elite communities in coastal stone towns.

    • Esther S. Brielle
    • Jeffrey Fleisher
    • Chapurukha M. Kusimba
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 615, P: 866-873

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of sediments and soils from hominin locales in Kenya coupled with results from hominin taxa suggest that a dietary shift from C3 to C4 resources occurred in the genus Homo circa 1.65 million years ago despite palaeoenvironmental continuity.

    • David B. Patterson
    • David R. Braun
    • René Bobe
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 3, P: 1048-1056

  • Consuming the milk of other species is a unique adaptation of Homo sapiens. Here, the authors carry out proteomic analysis of dental calculus of 41 ancient individuals from Sudan and Kenya, indicating milk consumption occurred as soon as herding spread into eastern Africa.

    • Madeleine Bleasdale
    • Kristine K. Richter
    • Nicole Boivin
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-11

  • Mammalian megafaunal biodiversity has declined since the Plio-Pleistocene. Here, the authors apply ecometric methods to evaluate the functional link between eastern African herbivorous megafauna and their environments, showing that some biodiversity loss coincided with community ecological function disturbance.

    • Daniel A. Lauer
    • A. Michelle Lawing
    • Jenny L. McGuire
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-15

  • The evolutionary origin of Hippopotamidae, the family of hippos, is poorly understood. Here, the authors describe a new fossil from Kenya that unambiguously roots Hippopotamidae into the group that includes the first large terrestrial mammals to invade Africa, more than 30 million years ago.

    • Fabrice Lihoreau
    • Jean-Renaud Boisserie
    • Stéphane Ducrocq
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 6, P: 1-8

  • The fossil taxon Propotto was originally identified as a primate, but is currently widely interpreted as a bat. Here, the authors identify Propotto as a stem chiromyiform lemur and, based on phylogenetic analysis, suggest two independent lemur colonizations of Madagascar.

    • Gregg F. Gunnell
    • Doug M. Boyer
    • Erik R. Seiffert
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-12