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

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.

That means MRD (the nickname comes from its collection number, MRD-VP-1/1) coexisted with another species of human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis, for at least 100,000 years.

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

Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.

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 ...

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.* ...