When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it ...

The July issue of the American Journal of Adam Gordon presented new research by anthropologist Adam Gordon that re-examined two landmark hominid samples, Australopithecus afarensis and ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females.

Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking, instead of climbing trees like chimps.

Australopithecus afarensis Scapular Ontogeny, Function, and the Role of Climbing in Human Evolution. Science, 2012; 338 (6106): 514 DOI: 10.1126/science.1227123 ...

Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth. Science Advances, 2020; 6 (14): eaaz4729 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz4729 ...

Today’s Google Doodle is a lovely animation celebrating the anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, a 3.18-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil at the Hadar research site in the Afar ...

This pair was separated by 100,000 years — less than the 800,000 years separating A. sediba and the earliest Homo. A reconstruction of the head of an *Australopithecus afarensis.* ...

Original Object Holding Institution National Museum of Ethiopia (Ethiopia) Location of Discovery Hadar, Ethiopia Site Hadar, Ethiopia Data Source NMNH - Anthropology Dept. Original Object Identifier A ...

Named after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” the 3.2 million-year-old remains belong to the Australopithecus afarensis family, a species that shares both human and ape ...

Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million-year-old, apelike fossil from South Africa, is the direct ancestor of Homo, the ...