The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, scientists squinted at the flattened bones of “Yunxian 2,” guessing it ...

Intensive food production systems have used too much land, too much water, too much fertilizer and too much soil carbon, he ...

The developers of the 1,050-megawatt facility majority owned by Centum Investment Co. failed to carry out adequate public ...

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Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from ...

The Congress set a bold vision for nature conservation over the next 20 years and called for action on the solutions needed ...

Teeth are extreme: they evolved at roughly the same time as bones, and they’re the hardest thing in the human body. So why ...