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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Competing models of hominin body size evolution.

Jacob D Gardner, Thomas A Püschel, Suzy White, Manabu Sakamoto, Chris Venditti

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jacob D GardnerEcology and Evolutionary Biology Division, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5790-632X
Thomas A PüschelInstitute of Human Sciences, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2231-2297
Suzy WhiteEcology and Evolutionary Biology Division, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5944-8270
Manabu SakamotoEcology and Evolutionary Biology Division, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6447-406X
Chris VendittiEcology and Evolutionary Biology Division, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AJ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6776-2355

Funding

Leverhulme Trust (The Leverhulme Trust) RL-2019-012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The evolutionary trajectory of hominin body size remains contested, with prior studies suggesting a gradual increase or lineage-specific shifts. Here, we apply Bayesian phylogenetic generalized linear mixed models to a dataset of 386 specimens across 21 taxa and find strong evidence for a marked body mass increase in non-

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Biological EvolutionBody SizeHominidaeModels, BiologicalAnimalsBayes TheoremFossilsPhylogenybody masshomininsphylogenetic comparative methodssize

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