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Meat was not on the menu for human ancestor Australopithecus

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...
NDTV

Was Meat On The Menu For Early Human Ancestors? Study Says...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Fifty years after her discovery, Lucy remains the original Australopithecus celebrity

Fifty years after its discovery on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, the fossil known as Lucy continues to shape our understanding of human origins. Lucy remains an icon ...
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Is This Great Ape an Ancestor of Mankind?

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, ...
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Study: Australopithecus males were much larger than females, showing extreme sexual dimorphism

Anthropologist Adam Gordon used multivariate resampling on fragmentary fossils to uncover size gaps that hint at intense male competition in early hominids. The July issue of the American Journal of ...
Daily Mail

Fossils of our earliest ancestors in the 'Cradle of Humankind' are one MILLION years older than previously thought, study finds

Fossils of early human ancestors in the so-called 'Cradle of Humankind' in South Africa may be more than a million years older than previously thought, according to a new study. The Sterkfontein Caves ...
CNN

Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Fossils of early ...