Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
Wild sooty mangabey monkeys can bend the middle of their feet almost as much as chimpanzees flex their…
Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo
Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million…
Before meat came fruit: The human brain evolved millions of years ago thanks to sugar | Science
At first, we mainly ate fruit. Or rather, the most recent relative we share with our closest cousins,…
Study Points to Sugar, Not Just Meat, as Fuel for Human Brain Evolution
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Glasgow argues that dietary sugars,…
Scientists Just Reconstructed the 3.6-Million-Year-Old Skull of ‘Little Foot’, One of Our Oldest Relatives
Left to right: The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet Scientists…
New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis
Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a…
Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Face of ‘Little Foot’
Beyond their value for classification and evolutionary relationships, changes in the size and shape of the hominin face…
Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the…
Two Australopithecus Species Co-Existed in Ethiopia 3.4 Million Years Ago
In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at…
Lead Exposure May Have Influenced Evolution of Human Brain, Behavior, and Development of Language
Several hominids — Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, early Homo sp., Gigantopithecus blacki, Pongo sp., Papio sp., Homo neanderthalensis,…