It was a traumatic experience for traders at the Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market, Mushin, Lagos, yesterday, as they counted ...

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.

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

However, humans will go extinct at some time, because extinction is what happens to all species. However, there are signs that humans will go extinct soon, in geological terms. In The Decline and Fall ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

africanus in 1947, including the famous “Mrs Ples”. Anatomist Arthur Keith, once one of the biggest critics of Dart and the Taung Child, even admitted to being wrong, such was the weight of ...