Skeletal remains found in a South African cave may yield new clues to human development and answer key questions of the evolution of the human lineage, according to a new series of papers. Skeletal ...

New research suggests that the human face evolved to minimize injuries from punches during fights between males. The study noted the evolution of human faces occurred as man's ancestors, known as ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Ape-like human ancestors known as australopiths had short legs because a squat physique and stance helped the males fight over access to females, a University of Utah study concludes. "The old ...

Despite her short stature and hirsute frame, Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis, whose discovery is today commemorated with a Google Doodle, was from a species that could be a forerunner to modern ...

Fossilized teeth of early human ancestors bear signs that females left their families when they came of age, whereas males stayed close to home. A chemical analysis of australopithecine fossils ...

1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a happening time in human evolution. It’s when our evolutionary branch — the hominins — diversified into about a dozen species, collectively known as Australopiths. So ...

Humans evolved to minimize injury incurred by punches to the face, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Utah observed that the fossils of australopiths—bi-peds that lived 4-5 million ...

Discover the Australopithecus anamensis skull, a 3.8 million-year-old find that reshapes our understanding of hominin evolution. On Feb. 10, 2016, the face of a ghost emerged from weathered Ethiopian ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia ...

Bare-knuckle fighting helped to shape the human face which evolution has designed to minimise the damage inflicted by a fast-moving fist, according to a radical new theory about how violence changed ...

The jaw bone is frequently fractured in fist fights and was strengthened in some of our evolutionary ancestors A new theory suggests that our male ancestors evolved beefy facial features as a defence ...