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Dental remains confirm that Homo Naledi belongs to the Homo genus, though their timeline placement remains uncertain. The ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

We even found it in some Australopithecus individuals, a genus that may have given rise to both Homo and Paranthropus. The enamel pits have commonly been assumed to be defects resulting from stresses ...

Some researchers noticed that P. robustus shared features with Australopithecus africanus. In particular, dental traits hinted at overlaps that seemed too close for comfort. Those overlaps eventually ...

Fossil footprints by Australopithecus afarensis - an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago in the Pliocene of East Africa. These footprints are not ...

Conversely, Australopithecus sediba displayed slightly less robust but still significant bone thickening in their fifth digit, suggesting varying hand strategies even among closely related species.