The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you'd think about the relationships between our fossil ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you’d think about the relationships between our fossil ...

Stratford said: "This reassessment of the age of Sterkfontein Member 4 Australopithecus fossils has important implications for the role of South Africa on the hominin evolution stage.

Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afarensis and ... have revealed details about human and environmental evolution that span about 4 million years. The site is home ...

Since then, hundreds of Australopithecus fossils have been found there ... sites in the Cradle of Humankind for decades to shed light on human and environmental evolution over the past 4 million years ...

The conventional story of hominin evolution says that the lineage ... “The first members of the genus Australopithecus are thought to have emerged in east Africa roughly 4.5m years ago, evolving ...

Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...

A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a hominin species called Australopithecus africanus ... Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the time ...

Intriguingly, the pattern of locomotor diversity is not limited to these early chapters of human evolution. Take, for instance, Australopithecus sediba. Rivaling the elephant dung fight in the ...

This year marks half a century since the discovery of Lucy, a hominid fossil that would go on to drastically alter our understanding of human evolution. The man who unearthed her, Donald Johanson ...