Swartkrans <i>Paranthropus</i> and Sterkfontein <i>Australopithecus</i> from southern Africa had different locomotor repertoires
. Together with differences in masticatory behavior, this line of evidence indicates that these two hominin taxa occupied distinct ecological niches.
Authors
- Annalisa Pietrobelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2558-1118)
- Christopher J. Dunmore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8634-9777)
- Marine Cazenave (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7194-5958)
- Sebastian Bachmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6533-3602)
- Jakobus Hoffman
- Kathleen Kuman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1252-9895)
- Dieter H. Pahr (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5822-2082)
- Jason L. Heaton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8039-4748)
- Travis Rayne Pickering (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5369-7807)
- Zewdi J. Tsegai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-4829)
- Matthew M. Skinner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8321-3543)
- Ashley S. Hammond (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8444-0553)
- Alexander Synek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5253-7403)
- Andrea Lukova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9843-336X)
- Dominic STRATFORD
- Matthew V. Caruana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2095-5360)
- Christopher M. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9259-1079)
- Ronald J. Clarke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-8937)
- Tracy L. Kivell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5087-0897)
- A. J. Heile
Institutions
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Fairfield University (US)
- American Museum of Natural History (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- TU Wien (AT)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- University of Kent (GB)
- University of Johannesburg (ZA)
- South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (South Africa) (ZA)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (ES)
- New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (US)
- Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ES)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
- University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (CZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2026-05-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2532193123
- Primary Topic
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Leakey Foundation
- Fondation Fyssen
- Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
- HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council