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 ...

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

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 ...