We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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Lucy spacecraft takes its first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson
Asteroid Donaldjohanson is named for anthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the fossilized skeleton—called "Lucy"—of a human ancestor. NASA's Lucy mission is named for the fossil.
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We modelled how early human ancestors ran – and found they were surprisingly slow
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago. The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ...
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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson
Donaldjohanson has a direct link to the Lucy spacecraft's name. Donald Johanson is a paleoanthropologist who discovered parts of a fossilized skeleton of an ancestor of homo sapiens', an ...
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‘Dietary fingerprints’ show our early ancestors dined mostly on plant-based foods
For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.
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From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relatives
afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." Our ancestor "Lucy," a young adult Australopithecus afarensis, became world-famous half a century ago after Donald Johanson and colleagues discovered ...
Unveiling secrets of the Swartkrans Cave | new fossils of a tiny human ancestor
According to Wits University, Paranthropus robustus lived in South Africa around two million years ago, alongside Homo ...