Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

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As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Learning to light our own fires was one of the great turning points in human history, offering our ancestors warmth, a place ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

In A Nutshell Scientists matched a mysterious 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot discovered in Ethiopia to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a human ancestor that lived alongside Lucy’s species but retained ...

How does a new-born's body know what to do before the mind catches up? This exploration of primitive reflexes uncovers the ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

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