Early human ancestors had an extreme body size gap between males and females, suggesting intense male competition and unique ...

By the time “Lucy” took her final steps across the Ethiopian landscape 3 million years ago, her kind may have been living in a social world far more combative than we once imagined. A new study ...

The July issue of the American Journal of Adam Gordon presented new research by anthropologist Adam Gordon that re-examined two landmark hominid samples, Australopithecus afarensis and ...

Madupe and her team have been working to recover traces of proteins from hominin fossils in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, where at least six hominin species lived, including A. africanus (3. ...

The Australopithecus africanus specimen is the oldest hominin analyzed for sex using palaeoproteomics. Light inside the Sterkfontein Caves in the paleoanthropological site Cradle of Humankind in ...

Breastfeeding used as a survival tool by Australopithecus africanus, our early human ancestor ABC North Coast / By Leah White Posted Mon 15 Jul 2019 at 1:48pm, updated Mon 15 Jul 2019 at 9:05pm ...

On the relationship between maxillary molar root shape and jaw kinematics in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. Royal Society Open Science, 2018; 5: 180825 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180825 ...

Australopithecus africanus: Strong hands for a precise grip Pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought ...

image: Australopithecus africanus impression by Jose Garcia and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University. view more Credit: Jose Garcia and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University.

Evidence shows that Australopithecus sediba is a direct descendant of Australopithecus africanus. The specimens had a combination of apelike and human-like traits.

However, some researchers contended the new skeletons belonged to a closely related species, Australopithecus africanus, and therefore did not represent a new species.

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females.