Australopithecus africanus was a direct ancestor of modern humans. They combined human-like and ape-like features. They were slender in build and had human-like heads and large brains.

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 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 ...

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 ...

This means that members of Australopithecus africanus like Mrs Ples were “contemporaries” of East Africa’s Australopithecus afarensis, including 3.2-million-year-old Lucy who was found 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 ...

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. ...

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