Special Issue: Innovation and the Evolution of Human Behavior.Introduction.

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This special issue of PaleoAnthropology concerns innovation and evolution. It contains seven contributions:• MacDonald, K.: Introduction• Coward, F. and Grove, M.: Beyond the Tools: Social Innovation and Hominin Evolution• Kyriacou, A. and Bruner, E.: Brain Evolution, Innovation, and Endocranial Variations in Fossil Hominids• Haidle, M.N. and Bräuer, J.:From Brainwave to Tradition—How to Detect Innovations in Tool Behavior• Rugg, G.: Quantifying Technological Innovation• Rugg, G. and Holland, N.: Quantifying Novelty in the Archaeological Record• Gowlett, J.A.J.: The Vital Sense of Proportion: Transformations, Golden Section, and 1:2 Preference in Acheulean BifacesThe “Innovation and Evolution” workshop was held at the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins, Uni-versity of Southampton, United Kingdom; workshop papers guest edited by Hannah Fluck (University of South-hampton; and, Landscape, Planning and Heritage, Hampshire County Council), Katharine MacDonald (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden), and Natalie Uomini (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool). This is article #1 of 7.