Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands and feet of Australopithecus sediba ... This mix of modern and primitive characteristics evokes the image of a hominin who ...

Australopithecus who ... But these nearly 5-foot-tall characters also had characteristics that suggest they walked upright. That skill separates them from their Ardipithecus predecessors, making ...

The species Australopithecus africanus (“the southern ape of Africa”) was first classified based on a skull found in 1924, which seemed to have characteristics of both humans and apes but ...

The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited ... on parental care for longer periods of time. Together, these characteristics are important for human cognition and social behavior, but their ...

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

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 member of the Australopithecus afarensis family, the 3.2 million-year-old fossil belonged to an animal that shared characteristics belonging to both apes and humans. She even appeared to have ...

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 ...

Jan 16 (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 ...