Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Dart’s find was described in newspapers all over the world, and he became famous overnight. But it took decades and the discovery of more australopithecine fossils in South Africa before ...

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 ...

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Australopithecus appeared and evolved before ... It is the earliest of all robust australopiths. Robust means having extremely large cheek teeth, a thick mandible, and a crested cranium.

It all comes down to science magic—okay, fine, it’s actually isotope analysis. Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel can reveal what an animal ate, because different foods leave distinct chemical ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

It might also explain why she was the tree from which she fell and died, because she had to resort to hiding instead of being able to flee predators on foot. And, most of all, we know that 38-year-old ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution ...

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