Skeletal remains found in a South African cave may yield new clues to human development and answer key questions of the evolution of the human lineage, according to a new series of papers. Skeletal ...
Fossilized teeth of early human ancestors bear signs that females left their families when they came of age, whereas males stayed close to home. A chemical analysis of australopithecine fossils ...
New research suggests that the human face evolved to minimize injuries from punches during fights between males. The study noted the evolution of human faces occurred as man's ancestors, known as ...
Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1698, Discussion meeting issue: Major transitions in human evolution (5 July 2016), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) An important question in ...
Discover the Australopithecus anamensis skull, a 3.8 million-year-old find that reshapes our understanding of hominin evolution. On Feb. 10, 2016, the face of a ghost emerged from weathered Ethiopian ...
Humans evolved to minimize injury incurred by punches to the face, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Utah observed that the fossils of australopiths—bi-peds that lived 4-5 million ...
1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a happening time in human evolution. It’s when our evolutionary branch — the hominins — diversified into about a dozen species, collectively known as Australopiths. So ...
Despite her short stature and hirsute frame, Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis, whose discovery is today commemorated with a Google Doodle, was from a species that could be a forerunner to modern ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia ...
Current theory about the shape of the human face just got a big punch in the mouth. Two University of Utah researchers proposed on Monday that the face of the ancestors of modern humans evolved ...
Bare-knuckle fighting helped to shape the human face which evolution has designed to minimise the damage inflicted by a fast-moving fist, according to a radical new theory about how violence changed ...
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 8, 2011 – Skeletal remains found in a South African cave may yield new clues to human development and answer key questions of the evolution of the human lineage, according to a ...
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