News

Australopithecus 1 Million Years Older! ... I'm 87 and work full time. I was rejected from hundreds of companies in my 80s and have a low-paying job, but I love the work. ...
Medicaid work requirements, under consideration as part of the House Republicans' budget to cut federal spending, are "impossible" to navigate for those using the program, experts said.. Part of ...
But work requirements aren’t just absurd; they’re also cruel. Beginning with Ronald Reagan, politicians have sung odes to the dignity of work and blamed “handouts” for keeping people poor.
For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...
Humans Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus. Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The ...
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old ...
Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago. The seven individuals studied were ...
New research shows Australopithecus, an early human ancestor, likely consumed little to no meat, challenging previous assumptions.
Australopithecus possessed ape-like face proportions and a brain about a third the size of our species, as well as relatively long arms with curved fingers, good for tree-climbing.
The findings suggest meat consumption was a later development, perhaps by subsequent populations of the various distinct Australopithecus species or by other species in the human evolutionary lineage, ...
The study determined the diet of seven Australopithecus individuals from South Africa dating to between 3.7 and 3.3 mil Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus Skip to main ...
A composite of the 3.8 million-year-old skull of Australopithecus anamensis and a reconstruction of its face. Image credit: Jennifer Taylor, ...