(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 ...

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Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

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 ...