A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

The Oldowan stones are believed to be the oldest known examples of stone tool industry in the world. Their development around ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Analysis of ancient proteins preserved in fossilized tooth enamel reveals insights into the elusive nature of Paranthropus robustus, researchers ...

They focused on the fossil hands of two early human ancestor species recovered from excavations in southern Africa, called ...

After nearly three years of closure due to flooding, the world-renowned Sterkfontein caves—part of South Africa’s Cradle of ...

You've probably seen the Reddit threads. Maybe it was a YouTube video with a scrolling bar chart or a guy counting grains of rice to represent Jeff Bezos' wealth. These visual stunts go viral for one ...

But evidence of when prehistoric people started eating meat has been difficult to find. Australopithecus was a hominin—a ...

They focused on the fossil hands of two early human ancestor species recovered from excavations in southern Africa, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi. The individuals lived around 2 ...

A FEW months ago I sent an account to NATURE 1 of the discoveries of a number of teeth of Australopithecus. The principal of those was a beautifully preserved third lower molar, but I also had ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.