Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Abstract: In this article, the robust distributed optimal coordination (DOC) problem over unbalanced directed communication networks is investigated for heterogeneous multiagent systems subjected to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Lucy might be one of the most iconic human ancestors, but she had a neighboring species that has gone unidentified—until now. The foot from this ...

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South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

About 3.4 million years ago, in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia, at least two different kinds of early human relatives walked the same landscape. The new paper reports additional jaws and ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site of Woranso-Mille in the Afar Rift in Ethiopia.

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

Paris (AFP) – Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous ...

Abstract: This brief aims to introduce the concept of robust control from continuous-state systems to the field of finite state machines (FSMs). It expands on the concept of observability by proposing ...