Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis probably were similar to humans in the size difference between males and females, according to researchers from Penn ...

The environmental context and stratigraphic position of the first australopithecine discovery, at Taung, South Africa, need to be reconsidered, since the Taung juvenile, as Australopithecus africanus, ...

This story was updated at 3:14 p.m. ET. A mysterious ancient relative of humanity known as Little Foot apparently roamed the Earth at about the same time as the famed Lucy, suggesting the ancestors of ...

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New hominid teeth have been found in Germany. How likely are they to be real Australopithecines or Ardipithecines, and what is their real significance? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain ...

There's a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago. A Utah biologist and ...

As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other ...

Update: Not only have we found a long-lost cousin, but it now appears that the skull of newly unveiled Australopithecus sediba contains a print of its brain. The skull of the young male ...

Mrs. Ples (StS 5), discovered in Sterkfontein, South Africa, in 1947, now shown to be contemporary with the East African species of Lucy. JASON L. HEATON/BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE Were South African ...

Anthropologists define a "grade shift" when a species shares structural and/or behavioral characteristics different from their ancestors. They also agree that the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 ...

Anthropologists define a ‘grade shift’ when a species shares structural and/or behavioral characteristics different from their ancestors. They also agree that the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 ...