A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Discover the significance of Ardipithecus ramidus, a pivotal early hominid revealing insights into our ancestors’ evolution. C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University spearheaded the studies on how ...

This release is available in Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese and Amharic. In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ...

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team ...

Tarzan swinging from tree to tree might seem like a Hollywood attempt at imagining the life of primitive men, but new findings suggest our ancient ancestors really were swingers. The study seemingly ...

復元されたアルディピテクス・ラミドゥス（Ardipithecus ramidus）の全身骨格。触れた途端にこなごなに崩れてしまいそうな脆さだ。15年という月日をかけて、岩の間から採取された破片の分析が進められ、同じ場所から発見された個体同士の比較も行われた。

Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approximately 5.7 million years old and were made at a time ...