General

Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups http://www.nature.com/articles/srep26374

Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7605/full/nature18291.html

The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa http://www.nature.com/articles/srep25501

Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences http://www.nature.com/articles/srep25887

The Lithic Assemblages of Xiaochangliang, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Early Pleistocene Hominin Behaviour in North China http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0155793

The impact of a date for understanding the importance of Homo naledi http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0035919X.2016.1178186?journalCode=ttrs20

Six new fossil species form 'snapshot' of primates stressed by ancient climate change http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6286/673