These caves are part of the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has yielded fossils from at least six ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts applied paleo proteomics to find the gender of a fossil found in South Africa.

See VBWI 316. Yeats’s essay, dated 14 October 1914, casts considerable light on ‘Leo Africanus’. See n. 5 above. At this point in the manuscript Yeats crossed out two sentences: ‘Dr Abraham Wallace ...

TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...

The wear of the teeth suggests that A. africanus ate fruits and foliage. Believed to be roughly the same size as A. afarensis, A. robustus had a large, "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...