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A 7 million-year-old fossil of Sahelanthropus tchadensis shows evidence of walking upright, suggesting it may be an early human ancestor, based on a newly identified femoral bump and other human-like features.
A new study using 3D technology provides strong evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old fossil, was bipedal, challenging previous debates and suggesting early bipedalism in human evolution.
A new analysis of 7-million-year-old fossils suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis was likely a bipedal hominin, supported by a newly identified femoral feature indicating upright walking, making it a strong candidate for the earliest human ancestor.
A nearly complete hominin skull found in Greece in 1960 has been dated to at least 286,000 years old using uranium-series dating, providing new insights into European human evolution and suggesting it coexisted with early Neanderthals during the Middle Pleistocene.
Researchers have discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints in Kenya, providing evidence that two hominin species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, coexisted and possibly interacted. This finding, published in Science, offers new insights into human evolution, revealing how these species shared habitats and faced environmental challenges. The footprints, found near Lake Turkana, are significant as they are "trace fossils," offering direct evidence of behavior and coexistence, unlike body fossils which can be displaced.
Scientists have discovered evidence of cannibalism in ancient human ancestors, possibly belonging to the Homo erectus or Paranthropus boisei species, in Kenya's Turkana region. The discovery was made from marks on a 1.45 million-year-old shin bone that indicate it was cut in a style used to strip meat, and chewed on by a large cat. While it's not the first time evidence of cannibalism has been found, the age of the bone makes it an incredible discovery.
Cut marks made by a stone tool on a 1.5-million-year-old human relative's bone found in northern Kenya appear to be the oldest evidence of one hominin butchering another, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The discovery raises the possibility that the remains were cannibalized. Cannibalism requires that both the consumer and consumed be of the same species. The closer the practice gets to Homo sapiens, the more complex and uncomfortable the questions it raises.
Researchers at Cambridge University have digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of the Australopithecus afarensis, a hominin that lived over three million years ago, for the first time. The study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, reveals that the hominin had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree-dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect walking. The research recreated 36 muscles in each leg, most of which were much larger in Lucy and occupied greater space in the legs compared to modern humans.
For the first time, a researcher has digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of an early human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis, revealing a capability to stand as erect as we do today. Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modeled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin using scans of 'Lucy': the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s. The research recreated 36 muscles in each leg, most of which were much larger in Lucy and occupied greater space in the legs compared to modern humans.