Australopithecus afarensis is a significant species in the study of human evolution. Often dubbed as one of our earliest ancestors, this species provides crucial insights into the evolutionary ...

ark:/65665/3ad017d8f-fb81-48e9-9ae1-c8dd93d835dc Original Object Holding Institution University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) Location of Discovery Sterkfontein, Republic of South Africa Site ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...

And we did not find this pitting in the southern Africa species Australopithecus africanus, despite a large sample of more than 500 teeth. However, it does appear in the earliest Omo ...

They were part of a food- chain and had no shortage of predators. So, Australopithecus did what is natural: they relied on their instinct – their animal ability to notice signs of potential danger.

News Published: 02 September 1939 Dentition of Australopithecus (Plesianthropus) Nature 144, 451–452 (1939) Cite this article ...

If you were to divide the 4.5-billion-year history into a 1,000-page book, our distant ancestors, Australopithecus [think: Lucy], appear on the last page.