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 determine ...

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 determine ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Amazing Australopithecus — excitement from 1925 about a ‘man ape’ fossil find A skull discovered in South Africa provides key evidence about human evolution, and early plans for a tunnel to connect ...

The five kilometres of passages and chambers in the Sterkfontein Cave system northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, have yielded about 800 Australopithecus specimens in the past 90 years. They are ...

Fifty years after its discovery on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, the fossil known as Lucy continues to shape our understanding of human origins. Lucy remains an icon ...

New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...

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Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...