The Oldest Hominin Molecules Yet: Paranthropus robustus Tooth Enamel Gives Up Its Proteins
From four teeth about two million years old, found in the Swartkrans cave in South Africa, a University of Copenhagen team has managed to s…
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From four teeth about two million years old, found in the Swartkrans cave in South Africa, a University of Copenhagen team has managed to s…
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Read →For decades, dense tropical rainforests were seen as impassable barriers for early humans. A 2025 study in Nature overturns that view: at t…
Read →In September 2026, a team led by Brazilian designer Cícero Moraes published in the journal Heritage a facial approximation of the oldest kn…
Read →For the first time, a hip bone, a femur and a tibia still joined together from a single Paranthropus robustus have been freed from the Swar…
Read →In Ethiopia's Afar Depression, the very beds that yielded Lucy have now produced a new crocodile, Crocodylus lucivenator. Four metres long …
Read →Near the village of Bidzar, in northern Cameroon, a field of marble slabs bears around five hundred engraved geometric figures, circles, sp…
Read →Between Senegal and the Gambia, more than a thousand circles of standing stones line a band of savanna some 350 kilometres long. Carved fro…
Read →Deep in a South African cave lie some twenty individuals of an extinct, tiny-brained humanity. Analysis of their proteins has just delivere…
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