The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary ... good for tree-climbing. Australopithecus stood ...

A study published in the Journal of Human Evolution found that chimpanzees select harder stones for nut-cracking tasks, similar to early human ancestors. This behavior suggests deep evolutionary ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

These phylogenetic or evolutionary trees ... the human genome, the most distantly related kinases are about a billion years apart," says Dr. Notredame. "They duplicated in the common ancestor ...

We propose that the switch from twins to singletons was critical for the evolution of large human babies with ... from our tiny primate ancestors birthing in the trees 60 million years ago.

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

They had a brain about one-third the size of modern humans and possessed long arms and curved fingers used for climbing trees ... evolutionary lineage, and the meat consumption of our ancestors ...

Professor Bates said: “When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, it was by far the most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor. Lucy is a fascinating fossil because it captures what you might call ...