Skeletal remains found in a South African cave may yield new clues to human development and answer key questions of the evolution of the human lineage, according to a new series of papers. Skeletal ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

New research suggests that the human face evolved to minimize injuries from punches during fights between males. The study noted the evolution of human faces occurred as man's ancestors, known as ...

Our ape-like predecessors kept their stout figures for 2 million years because having short legs ironically gave them the upper-hand in male-male combat for access to mates, finds a new study. Living ...

1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a happening time in human evolution. It’s when our evolutionary branch — the hominins — diversified into about a dozen species, collectively known as Australopiths. So ...

Humans evolved to minimize injury incurred by punches to the face, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Utah observed that the fossils of australopiths—bi-peds that lived 4-5 million ...

Fossilized teeth of early human ancestors bear signs that females left their families when they came of age, whereas males stayed close to home. A chemical analysis of australopithecine fossils ...

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