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

The earliest human ancestors showed marked size differences between males and females. A recent study sheds light on the ...

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 National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins vastly distorts the scientific evidence on human evolution, ...

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 ...

Australopithecus africanus, partial face and lower jaw, (Sts 52), Sterkfontei Credit – Mike Peel, CC SA 4.0.

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. ...

Compressive stress in the cranium of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct early human, imposed by biting on the premolar teeth. Bright colors correspond to high stresses, and indicate that a ...

The Scientist's content tagged with: Australopithecus Africanus.Universe 25 Experiment A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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