A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

What potential new insights does the hypothesis give us into human evolution? Populations of Australopithecus may have been indirectly affected by the decrease in temperature. Australopithecus is the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Human Evolution 140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced Human Evolution 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the ...

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