We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

Summary STS 5, a nearly complete adult Australopithecus africanus, was an important fossil find because skeptics had previously argued that the Taung Child was actually a baby chimpanzee that would ...

The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world’s most ...

New isotope analysis of Australopithecus tooth enamel uncovers a plant-based diet, challenging long-held views on meat’s role ...

Instead, the real virtue of the short attention span is in the itch. The one that compels people to keep flicking until they ...

If you were to divide the 4.5-billion-year history into a 1,000-page book, our distant ancestors, Australopithecus [think: Lucy], appear on the last page.

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

A COMPARATIVE and phylogenetic study of the dentition of the extinct South African man-ape Australopithecus (Plesianthropus) transvaalensis Broom has been made by W. K. Gregory and Milo Hellman ...