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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.