(Reuters) - 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 ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group of ancient hominins that lived in what is now Africa more than two million ...

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More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was just out walking his dog when he tripped over what he thought was a rock. What he actually discovered was far more significant—a nearly 2-million-year-old fossil ...

The latest fossil un-earthed from a human ancestral hot spot in Africa allows scientists to link together the most complete chain of human evolution so far. The 4.2 million-year-old fossil discovered ...

Childbirth was difficult and dangerous for our ape-like ancestors, much as it is for women today. A new study of the pelvises of Australopithecus suggests that labour exerted powerful forces on their ...

Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia is now changing anthropologists' understanding of the ...

The recovery of new lumbar vertebrae from the lower back of a single individual of the human relative, Australopithecus sediba, and portions of other vertebrae of the same female from Malapa, South ...