Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.
For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...
We also tested the isotopic signature of animals that lived in the ecosystem at the same time. We saw that the isotopic ...
Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...
The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...
Tool use is a storied tradition among hominins. Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy ...