Researchers in South Africa announced yesterday that they have solved one of the oldest murder cases in the world. The victim was 3½-year-old Taung child, the first fossil from a human ancestor ...

Opportunities for women of colour in palaeoanthropology are limited by both structural inequalities and hostile environments.

The South African fossil record ranges from early hominins such as Australopithecus prometheus, A. africanus (Taung child), A. sediba and P. robustus, to early members of the genus Homo (H ...