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In this photo, a researcher holds a replica of the skull as he makes the case that an eagle killed the Taung child. Turkana boy, a nearly complete 1.6 million-year-old fossil of what some scientists call Homo ergaster, an early African population of Homo ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27225171/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/ten-fossi...
The draft sequences of the human genome, published in 2001 by the publicly funded Human Genome Project and Craig Venter's privately funded Celera Genomics, are often hailed as one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 21st century. Perhaps so ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38158710/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/eight-gre...
Discovered in cave near Johannesburg in 2008, the fossils of a species named "Australopithecus sediba" have given researchers clues about the evolution of man and which traits in our ancestors fell by the wayside. Standing about 1.3 meters (4 ft ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51519690/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/two-million-year-old-...
Chimpanzees don't have that." However, the less well-preserved lower rib cage fossils were more humanlike. This might have helped accommodate its strange form of walking just as its odd lower back did. "Everywhere we look in these skeletons, from the jaws ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51506626/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/humanitys...
The Hobbit's wrist looked like that of early human relatives, such as Australopithecus, but the key ancestral candidate now is Homo erectus, "Upright Man." It is possible that a population of H. erectus became stranded on the Indonesian island and dwarfed ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50434876/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/new-bone-...
The controversial extinct human lineage known as "hobbits" gained a face this year, one of many projects that shed light in 2012 on the history of modern humans and their relatives. Other discoveries include the earliest known controlled use of fire and ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50304281/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/what-we-l...
Long-ago lore still has the power to ignite modern-day controversies: Witness the tempests that were stirred up this year over the Maya calendar, the purported "Gospel of Jesus' Wife," a bone box linked to early Christians, a disputed dinosaur skeleton and ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/27/16173366-the-years-ancient-mysteri...
Humanity's ancient ancestors swung from the trees, which meant they needed long fingers for grasping branches. But once Australopithecus afarensis like the famous "Lucy" began walking on two legs between 3.8 million and 2.9 million years ago, their hands ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50253098/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/human-han...
Humanity's ancient ancestors swung from the trees, which meant they needed long fingers for grasping branches. But once Australopithecus afarensis like the famous "Lucy" began walking on two legs between 3.8 million and 2.9 million years ago, their hands ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50252812/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/human-han...
Earlier this year, remains of an enormous horned crocodile, Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, were found next to Australopithecus, a now-extinct human relative. Researchers suspect that the croc regularly dined on humans. Moving to modern times, Burgess reminds ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49734403/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/some-anim...
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Updated May. 17, 2013
The fossilized skull of a 3-year-old female from the species Australopithecus afarensis exhibits some characteristics of apes as well as humans. By Malcolm Ritter.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14922303/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/baby-foss...
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... Australopithecus sediba, right after his death. While gazing at the hominid's skull as it was being studied with a powerful electromagnetic radiation X-ray ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36421160/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/brain-par...
Updated May. 17, 2013
Still, unlike in Australopithecus and humans, the foot lacked an arch, an energy-absorbing feature of feet that helps protect bones. Science news from NBCNews.comhttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/46882487/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/walking-u...
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Over the past 35 years, other specimens of Australopithecus afarensis have been found that suggested a body size larger than Lucy, and even larger than Kadanuumuu.http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/21/4539675-lucys-great-grandfather-fo...
Updated May. 14, 2013
... it might even go into Australopithecus. I think that while we have the broad outlines, the areas that bug us the most have to do with the common ancestor.http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/02/10/4351629-lessons-from-lucy?lite
Updated May. 17, 2013
Australopithecus means "southern ape," while sediba means "fountain" in Sotho, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa, due to how scientists hint the human ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708014-humanitys-closest-ancestor-...
Updated May. 17, 2013
The connections between Ardipithecus and Australopithecus have been theorized since an anamensis fossil was first found in Kenya 11 years ago.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12286206/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/fossil-di...
Updated May. 17, 2013
This image shows the skeletal right hand of the adult female Australopithecus sediba nestled within a modern human hand. The fossil hand, lacks three wrist bones and ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44438221/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/pre-human...
Updated May. 11, 2013
One Australopithecus walked next to another, while a third, smaller individual trailed behind, stepping in the tracks of one of the larger individuals.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45210980/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/human-anc...
Updated May. 16, 2013
Curnoe instead proposes that Australopithecus garhi, found in Ethiopia and dating to about 2.5 million years ago, ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36177857/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/tree-swin...
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