ケニアのNyayangaでの新たな考古学的発見によって、オルドワン技術 ―― 判明している中で最古の先史時代の石器製作 ―― はこれまで考えられていたより古く、また、広く普及していたことが示されたと、研究者らは報告している。彼らが発見したオルド ...

エチオピア北東部で発見された、約260万年前に絶滅したパラントロプス（Paranthropus）と呼ばれるホミニン（hominin）の化石は、当時この地域に生息していたホミニンの種数を増やすものである。今週のNature に掲載されるこの発見は、人類の古代の親類である ...

Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was extremely small in size." New fossil discoveries in South Africa's Swartkrans ...

人類の古代の近縁種であるパラントロプス・ボイセイ（Paranthropus boisei）に属する150万年前の新たな化石群には、この種に明確に関連付けられる手の骨が含まれており、ホミニン（hominin；ヒト族）の手の進化に関する知見を提供する。Nature にオープン ...

Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive ...

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Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They ...

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and genetic variability via sequencing of enamel proteins from four Paranthropus ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy ...