Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Yes, your hands are 380 million years old, but can you also infer not just anatomy but ...

The most famous human ancestor, Lucy the australopithecine, was named after the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. But new research might warrant a theme song change to Adele's Skyfall. Did Lucy ...

Update: Not only have we found a long-lost cousin, but it now appears that the skull of newly unveiled Australopithecus sediba contains a print of its brain. The skull of the young male ...

One of the world's most important fossils has a story to tell about the brain evolution of modern humans and their ancestors, according to new research. The Taung fossil -- the first australopithecine ...

Could the intelligence of Australopithecines be more developed than we previously thought? Recent discoveries about these ancestors raise questions about our evolution. At the heart of human history, ...

Few australopithecines have shed light on human evolution quite like Lucy. Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in ...

How far back in the human lineage does tool use extend? Fossil bones that bear evidence of butchery marks made by stone implements increase the known range of that behaviour to at least 3.2 million ...

More than 3 million years ago, when “Lucy” was roaming the savannah of present-day Ethiopia, she may have encountered other two-legged apes not unlike her own species, Australopithecus afarensis—yet ...

DURING October 1954, Mr. C. K. Brain 1 discovered 129 trimmed, utilized or damaged stones in situ in the 18-ft. red, gravel-bearing, sandy layer 25 ft. above the australopithecine-carrying grey ...