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 ...

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

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 important fossil discoveries have been made.

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

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.

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 ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...