Rather than a single ancestral line steadily evolving toward modern humans, the evidence points to an evolutionary “bush” of ...
(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 struggled to ...
A boy and his father were out walking around north of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the father was a paleoanthropologist and he knew the remains found by his son could be a major archeological ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ...
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How Our Human Lineage Broke All the Rules of Vertebrate Evolution
As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These ...
On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...
When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, but little did he know just how much it would ...
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