New Fossil Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Early Human Size
Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...
We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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‘Dietary fingerprints’ show our early ancestors dined mostly on plant-based foods
For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.
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Leopard Dined on the Shortest-Ever Early Human Relative, 2 Million Years Ago
Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...
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Newly Found Bones Change What We Know About Paranthropus robustus
The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...
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When humans started using tools: the theories and the evidence
This is why, when palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson in 1974 discovered Lucy, the partial skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor of the small-brained species Australopithecus afarensis, ...
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New fossil discovery shows early human relative walked upright
A newly discovered fossil of Paranthropus robustus, an early human relative, reveals that it walked upright like modern ...