OH 86 is a complete manual proximal phalanx that is nearly entirely encased in a very thin layer of the carbonated tuffaceous silt from which it derives (that is, the ‘Chapati Tuff’; Fig. 2). Although ...
THE discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old pinky bone suggests that modern human hands, good at tool use but bad at tree climbing, evolved earlier than we thought. The bone found in Tanzania’s Olduvai ...
The second set of papers related to the remarkable discovery of Homo naledi, a new species of human relative, have been published in scientific journal, Nature Communications, on Tuesday, 6 October ...