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

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

Scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old human relative, revealing new ...

In a new study, scientists have been able to use peptides taken from an ancient hominin to determine its sex – and at 3.5 ...

Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the ...

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

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madupe and her team have been working to recover traces of proteins from hominin fossils in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, where at least six hominin species lived, including A. africanus (3. ...