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

“These weren’t modest differences,” said Adam D. Gordon, an anthropologist at the University at Albany and lead author of the ...

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

Anthropologist Adam Gordon used multivariate resampling on fragmentary fossils to uncover size gaps that hint at intense male competition in early hominids.