Little Foot, the 3.6-Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor Unveiled to Public
Two days ago, Little Foot, Stw 573, the near-complete Australopithecine skeleton dating back 3.67 million years was unveiled at the …
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Say Hello to Australopithecus deyiremeda, A Newly Discovered 3.4 Million Year Old Hominid
A study published in Nature today announces the 2011 discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda a hominid that lived between 3.3 and 3.5 …
Microwear Analysis at Dmanisi
This month in the Journal of Human Evolution, a new study on the teeth of the Dmanisi Homo erectus has …
Sexual Dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis
The discussion about dimorphism between the sexes in the genus Australopithecus has been an ongoing debate in the world of …
Sexual Dimorphism & Social Behavior of Paranthropus robustus
This week, we saw a short paper in Science on Paranthropus robustus sexual dimorphism and the implications the differences between …
David Strait’s $940k grant to study Australopithecine diet evolution
Recently, Nate Dominy was granted a very generous fellowship to continue his studies on human evolution and diet. David Strait, …
Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged’s TEDtalk
Yesterday, I got sent a video of paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged‘s talk at this year’s TED conference. Last year we all …
