The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy ... “This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution ... “We see that apes nowadays [fish for termites], so why not our ancestors?” says Lüdecke to Science ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... of Human Ancestors at Same ...

He estimated the facial features of the ancient hominid using the eye-to-socket size ratio that is shared between African Apes and modern ... see what our Denisovan ancestors really looked like.

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and ... during human evolution. Animal resources provide ...