Today, we will look at the facts surrounding the Australopithecus ... but its brain was larger than that of the Australopithecus africanus. Their fossils were found with mammals that lived in ...

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

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...

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

Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil, named after the small town near where it was found, led to the understanding that humans and their ancestors ...

which are the building blocks of proteins – from the tooth enamel of an Australopithecus africanus specimen found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein caves. Among the 118 peptides the team ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution ...