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

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Analysis of rare hominin infant fossils excavated in southern Africa reveals unexpected cranial features which add weight to the hypothesis that Paranthropus robustus is more closely related to the ...

An upright hominid that lived side by side with direct ancestors of modern humans more than a million years ago had a far more diverse diet than once believed, clouding the notion that it was driven ...

Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study ...

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 ...