本文报道了与鲍氏傍人（Paranthropus boisei）明确相关的手骨与足骨化石（KNM-ER 101000），揭示了该物种具备与现代人相似的拇指-手指比例，可能具有工具制造与使用能力，同时其手部形态与大猩猩趋同，暗示了强力的抓握与可能的食物加工行为。这项研究为理解 ...

来自南非的研究人员通过古蛋白质组学技术，对约200万年前的南方非洲傍人(Paranthropus robustus)牙齿化石进行质谱测序，首次实现该古人类物种的性别鉴定与遗传变异分析。研究不仅发现AMELY特异性肽段标记的性别二态性，还通过氨基酸多态性和釉质-牙本质交界 ...

A 2-million-year-old skull from a large-toothed distant human cousin has been unearthed at an Australian-led archaeological dig deep in a South African cave system. Paranthropus robustus walked the ...

The large teeth and massive jaw of Paranthropus boisei suggest the hominid ate hard objects, but the chemistry and wear on the teeth indicate the species consumed grasses or sedges. Image courtesy of ...

The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of Species ...

IT ISN’T often that an esteemed professor sets out to investigate a scientific discovery made by a 15-year-old boy, but in 1938 Robert Broom made an exception. The British-born palaeontologist was ...

The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of Species ...

Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was extremely small in size." See more on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract New approaches to the study of early hominin diets have refreshed interest in how and when our diets diverged from those of other African apes ...