The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...
The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...
And they knew which animals had skeletons large enough to craft reliable tools ... This way we will learn more about the evolution of human technology and behaviour. 32,789 people played the daily ...
Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton ... Journal of Human Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.
"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.