“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

That makes it the northernmost evidence of Paranthropus by 1,000 kilometres (600 miles). Moreover, we’re learning ...

A research team led by Zeresenay Alemseged, a researcher at the University of Chicago in the United States, discovered 2.6 ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

In a new paper published in Nature , a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports the discovery of ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

A partial lower jaw discovered in Afar, Ethiopia expands the known geographic distribution of Paranthropus northward by 1000 km, revealing the genus to be more widespread and adaptively versatile than ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

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Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists discovered that some fluctuating conditions help populations evolve higher ...