Ancient proteins reveal male Australopithecus africanus, oldest hominin found in Sterkfontein Caves

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...
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Is This Great Ape an Ancestor of Mankind?

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...
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Early humans breastfed their young for a year, study says

Three million years ago, Australopithecus africanus was one of the first human ancestor species to live across the southern African grasslands and forests. A new study of fossil teeth suggests that ...