A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry suggests that early human ancestors of the genus Australopithecus ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old human relative, revealing new ...

In a stunning discovery in Kenya, a set of 1.5-million-year-old footprints has raised new questions about the origins of ...

However, humans will go extinct at some time, because extinction is what happens to all species. However, there are signs that humans will go extinct soon, in geological terms. In The Decline and Fall ...

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

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

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

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...