One Piece has a long history of pirate adventures for Monkey D. Luffy, but it took awhile for us to learn about his family ...

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 ...

And having a new marker to look out for on fossil teeth could give us a new tool to help fit together our family tree. These pits were first identified ... We even found it in some Australopithecus ...

For Australopithecus africanus, on the other hand, Raymond Dart assumed a height of 1.25 meters and a weight of 25 to 30 kilograms. Early man was small and weak.

NEWS ANALYSIS. Fifty years after this fossil's discovery, its place in the history of humankind is still debated, while, in the meantime, other hominin species have expanded our family tree.

When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton. Features ...

Beyond that, it's most similar to H. naledi. From there, its shape appears to be equally distant from various species, including both H. erectus and various species of Australopithecus.

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 species, ...

Our approach has been applied to molar teeth of the Taung Child, with a new result of 2.58 million years for this specimen of Australopithecus africanus.

Two-million-year-old teeth (four sets, in fact) tell new stories in a newly posted preprint paper that strips them of enamel and analyzes what the proteins have to say. This "proteomic" approach, ...

Australopithecus fossil shows human ancestors swung from trees just 3 million years ago NEW ANALYSIS of humanity's earliest known ancestor, the Australopithecus, will help scientists better ...