The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to all ...

The nearly complete brain of the ancient human relative "Little Foot" shows this ancient hominin had a small brain with a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Hominins include modern and ...

Mineral deposits found on the fossilized remains of Australopithecus sediba could be early human skin. (Courtesy Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand) The 2.2-million-year-old fossils of ...