Global cooling associated with the impact of supernova remnants may have affected plants and animals, including species related to humans.
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Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.
Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung child skull, 100 years since its discovery.
The history of human origins research is intimately intertwined with the prevalent socio-political landscape.
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.
Using a method applied directly to ancient hominin teeth, researchers have calculated the age of several important fossils.
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