Jun 25, 2018 · African skulls, sometimes referred to as Negroid, are longer from front to back and have more of a forward slope from forehead to chin. The slope causes a protrusion of the jaw, …

Mar 20, 2002 · Almost 1.8 million years ago, a new kind of human appeared in Africa and Eurasia. It stood tall and had a relatively large brain and slender hips. These early humans used stone …

Asian skulls tend to have distinctive shovel-shaped upper incisors. African skulls can have more rectangular-shaped orbits when compared to European and Asian skulls. The nasal aperture …

The Hofmeyr Skull is a specimen of a 36,000-year-old anatomically modern human skull that was found in 1952 near Hofmeyr, South Africa. The skull was found in 1952 on the surface of an …

Mar 22, 2002 · A report in this week's issue of Nature offers an answer, based on a million-year-old skull from Ethiopia, that meshes with the judgment of a previous generation. The team of …

5 days ago · The skull and braincast of the first Australopithecus africanus fossil, known as the Taung Child. Credit: Patrick Landmann/Science Photo Library. On 7 February 1925, Nature …

When this 3-year-old child's skull was found in 1924, it was among the first early human fossils to be found in Africa -- and the first early human fossil discovery to draw major attention to this …

KNM-WT 17000 or the ’Black Skull’ only got its dramatic dark color after millions of years of sitting in a manganese-rich soil and absorbing minerals as it fossilized. This nearly complete …

Apr 1, 2020 · The skull (E686) has been seen by many researchers as part of a relatively gradual and widespread evolutionary sequence in Africa from archaic humans (H. heidelbergensis/H. …

4 days ago · A fossil found in South Africa 100 years ago provides insights into the emergence of a crucial — and unusual — life stage. ... Dart’s report of the fossilized skull and matching …