In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention was ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

New research brings to light for the first time the evolution of maternal roles and parenting responsibilities in one of our oldest evolutionary ancestors Australopithecus africanus mothers breastfed ...

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