Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, is one of the key features that distinguishes humans from other apes. But when and why ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...
(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 ...
University of Sydney study suggests Australopithecus afarensis obtained over 65% of daily energy from sugary fruits to fuel ...
New research on the limb bones of the famous Little Foot skeleton from the Wits Sterkfontein Caves suggests that a major ...
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Scientists want to fold Australopithecus into our own genus, rewriting the human family tree
The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...
Paranthropus boisei cranium, one of the three genera the proposal would fold into an expanded Homo. Photo by Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons. Three genus names do nearly all the work in ...
New evidence from fossils representing two groups of human ancestors—Australopithecus and early Homo—adds an important piece to the puzzle about when our ancestors transitioned from a life often spent ...
Human evolution may need a new name for much of its family tree. Fossils once separated into Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus increasingly resist those neat divisions, raising a basic question ...
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