In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

Little Foot is from a branch of the human family tree called Australopithecus ... with a mixture of ape-like and human characteristics. "This reopening represents a significant evolution in ...

Given the importance of maxillary characteristics in species diagnoses of early ... comparisons with contemporary maxillae attributed to Kenyanthropus platyops, Australopithecus deyiremeda, and ...

essential characteristics related to finding food and mates. A major new find from Swartkrans, the first articulating hipbone, thigh bone, and shin bone of Paranthropus robustus, changes that.

The Australopithecus africanus remains have ... the sex of prehistoric individuals has traditionally relied on skeletal characteristics, and the incomplete nature of most fossils often makes ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one ... the skull clearly had humanlike characteristics, too, as anthropologist Dean Falk at Florida State University in ...

“But Australopithecus was the first genuinely ... “Given their mix of ape-like and human-like characteristics, we have learnt that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage, with an increase ...

If Australopithecus thrived on a primarily plant-based diet, researchers must now investigate what other factors – beyond meat consumption – contributed to the development of larger brains and other ...

Previous studies of Australopithecus fossilized footprints by various ... performance was the primary factor that drove the evolution of many of distinctly human characteristics, such as longer legs ...

“By simulating running performance in Australopithecus and modern humans with computer ... was the primary factor that drove the evolution of many of distinctly human characteristics, such as longer ...

His argument is that several Australopithecus fossils had already been found ... with the three defining characteristics of the Homo genus—bipedalism, tool-making, and large brains—evolving together.

She was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis ... Some of the prints are so detailed that all the characteristics of a modern human footprint left on a beach are visible.