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 ...

where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well as comparisons with sites in southern Africa (Drimolen, Swartkrans and Kromdraai). The Omo collection includes teeth ...

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.

The discovery is changing our understanding of Australopithecus, an ancient hominin. Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years ...

The fact that two Australopithecus species were waltzing about Sterkfontein prior to 3m years ... “These new dates from Sterkfontein complicate our understanding of early human evolution ...

Australopithecus sediba (top) had adaptations to both terrestrial and arboreal locomotion; tiny Homo floresiensis (bottom) had large, flat feet that might have required taking small, high steps.

A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a hominin species called Australopithecus africanus had been discovered in South Africa. ... Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, ...

The First Australopithecus, 1925 The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution. Sabrina Richards ...

However, the role of animal foods in shaping human evolution is complex and far from resolved. Early ancestors like ...

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 ...

The discovery is changing our understanding of Australopithecus, an ancient hominin. Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years ...