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 ...

A 2-million-year-old skull from a large-toothed distant human cousin has been unearthed at an Australian-led archaeological dig deep in a South African cave system. Paranthropus robustus walked the ...

The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of Species ...

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 ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The extinct human relative is from the genus Paranthropus, whose nickname is ...

Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study ...

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 ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

A human ancestor that was characterised by a 'robust' jaw and skull bones was also a muscular creature that had a gorilla-like upper body. Bones have revealed that one of our ancient ancestor was more ...

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