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.

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.

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.

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The study determined the diet of seven Australopithecus individuals from South Africa dating to between 3.7 and 3.3 million years ago based on the chemistry of their tooth enamel.

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 incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

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 ancient hominin Australopithecus anamensis is thought to be one of our oldest known relations – but what do we actually know about the species? How long ago did they live?