For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein caves to be about 1 million years older than previous estimates, potentially changing scientists ...

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

but its brain was larger than that of the Australopithecus africanus. Their fossils were found with mammals that lived in dry grasslands. This proved that the robust Australopithecus were grass ...

africanus in 1947, including the famous “Mrs Ples”. Anatomist Arthur Keith, once one of the biggest critics of Dart and the Taung Child, even admitted to being wrong, such was the weight of ...

Amid stacks of books in the front room of his house near Oxford University, writer and evolutionist Richard Dawkins points to a piece of memorabilia: A replica of the Australopithecus africanus skull ...