(Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

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 ...

New research published in Science suggests that Australopithecus, a genus of early human ancestors, primarily consumed plants, with minimal evidence of meat consumption. This study analyzed nitrogen ...

エチオピアで発見された380万年前のヒト族のほぼ完全な頭蓋骨化石について記述した2編の論文が、今週掲載される。著者は、この頭蓋骨がアウストラロピテクス・アナメンシス（Australopithecus anamensis）種のものだとしており、最も原始的な ...

The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to all ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Fossils of early ...

New York and Johannesburg – An international team of scientists from New York University, the University of the Witwatersrand and 15 other institutions announced today in the open access journal ...