The fossilized remains of one of the smallest known human relatives have been unearthed in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind ...

This feat has come about over time through a series of anatomical changes to our skeleton, affecting our cranial base, spine, pelvis, femur, knees and feet. Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern ...

Some experts argue that Lucy was in some ways more adapted to walking upright than a modern human, whose pelvis has to be a compromise between bipedal locomotion and the ability to give birth to ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million ...

However, their teeth, as well as their leg and pelvis bones, exhibit human-like characteristics. They ranged in height from three and a half feet to five feet and walked upright. Although similar ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that ... particularly in the pelvis and hindlimb. Bipedality is often considered to be the hallmark of hominins, and its presence in ...