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Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research
A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...
Prague museum to host first European display of 3.18 million year old Lucy
The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...
Science suggests that you could outrun your prehistoric ancestors
Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons.
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A century since the roots of human lineage were traced to Africa
It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...
Could You Outrun ‘Lucy,’ Your 3-Million-Year-Old Ancestor? New Science Says Most Likely
Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.
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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
Jan 16 (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 ...
The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...
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Early ancestor diet revealed: Australopithecus relied on plants, not meat
New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...
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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus
New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...
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Ancient tooth enamel shatters long-held beliefs about early human diet
Research reveals that Australopithecus, one of humanity’s earliest ancestors who lived in South Africa between 3.7 and 3.3 million years ago, primarily maintained a plant-based diet rather than ...
See Lucy Run, 3.2 Million Years Ago
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 ...