A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

FOLLOWING the recovery of several fragments A of a very small adult skull of Sinanthropus from Locus I (Locality 1) in the latter part of our spring field season at Choukoutien, we had the good ...

But because the skulls of young humans and young apes are so similar, and because the skull was so different from other found fossils, including the phony Piltdown Man, other scientists ignored ...

He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but human characteristics. Australopithecines were small, with long arms, prominent skulls and small brains and retained ...

Ph.D. scholar Alannah Pearson used CT scans to compare 3D virtual skulls of several of our earliest ancestors, as well as all living species of great apes. The ANU study is the first of its kind ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...