Eighteen newly described hominin fossils from a single cave in South Africa include an adult Homo erectus, the first of its ...
Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...
The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...
Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was extremely small in size." New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "These small early hominin individuals are reconstructed as shorter and stockier than modern human 'pygmies'," or groups of people ...
A newly described adult skull fragment from Drimolen Cave in South Africa suggests Homo erectusappeared in the region about 200,000 years earlier than traditionally believed. Eighteen hominin fossils ...
A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and genetic variability via sequencing of enamel proteins from four Paranthropus ...
Compared to other P. robustus males recovered from a nearby cave system called Swartkrans, DNH 155 (pictured here) was much smaller and had more female-like characteristics. Jesse Martin and David ...