In South Africa, Three Hominins, Including Earliest Homo erectus, Lived during the Same Period
Nearly 2 million years ago, three hominin genera - Australopithecus, Paranthropus and the earliest Homo erectus lineage - lived as contemporaries in the karst landscape of what is now South Africa, according to a new geochronological evaluation of the hominin fossil-rich Drimolen Paleocave complex.
A 3.8-Million-Year-Old Fossil From Ethiopia Reveals the Face of Lucy’s Ancestor
Leakey Foundation grantee Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team of researchers have discovered a "remarkably complete" cranium of a 3.8-million-year-old early human ancestor from the Woranso-Mille paleontological site, located in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
Foot of Dikika Child Shows How Our Ancestors Moved
For the first time, we have an amazing window into what walking was like for a 2½-year-old, more than three million years ago.
Grantee Spotlight: Thierra Nalley
The next grantee from our spring 2015 cycle is Thierra Nalley from the California Academy of Sciences. Her project is entitled “Ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in extant hominoids and Australopithecus.”
Thierra Nalley and a digital reconstruction of the fossil hominin DIK 1-1
Walking on two legs, or bipedalism, is a hallmark adaptation of the human lineage. A requirement for