The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia ...

New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species -- Australopithecus afarensis -- lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley: much farther than previously thought. An international ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have published the results of a cutting-edge study analysing a three million-year-old fossil dubbed Little Foot. The exceptionally ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine ...

KSD-VP-1/1d is a right os coxa, including an acetabulum, a superior ischial ramus, the dorsal half of the ischial tuberosity, and much of the ilium inferior to the crest (SI Appendix, Fig. S6). An ...

Paleoanthropologists have discovered and examined the fossil lumbar vertebrae of Australopithecus sediba, a small hominin that lived about 2 million years ago. Their results suggest that ...

Human evolution stages from Australopithecus to Homo Sapiens... Human evolution stages: Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Erectus, Neanderthalensis, Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Darwin evolution theory visual ...

3D simulation shows Lucy's running speed peaked at 5 metres per second Lucy's anatomy limits her speed compared to modern humans Muscle and tendon evolution key to human endurance running ...