Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the ...

Picture this: It’s 3.5 million years ago. You’re a fuzzy, upright-walking Australopithecus, roaming the prehistoric grasslands, munching on leaves, fruits, and whatever else doesn’t require a spear to ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts applied paleo proteomics to find the gender of a fossil found in South Africa.

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. The study ...

Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the ...

which are the building blocks of proteins – from the tooth enamel of an Australopithecus africanus specimen found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein caves. Among the 118 peptides the team ...

but its brain was larger than that of the Australopithecus africanus. Their fossils were found with mammals that lived in dry grasslands. This proved that the robust Australopithecus were grass ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...

Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil, named after the small town near where it was found, led to the understanding that humans and their ancestors ...