The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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He's A Previously Unknown Human Relative Of Ours From Southern Africa, Dubbed Nutcracker Man
In 1949, a fossil jaw was discovered in a cave and has now been identified as belonging to a previously unknown human ...
1.4 Million-Year-Old Jaw Identified as New Paranthropus Species in South Africa
A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.
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In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago
Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.