Australian researchers have discovered a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa that sheds new light on human evolution. The fossil was a male Paranthropus robustus, a species that existed ...

are certainly suggestive of the possible significance of the new find in relation to the affinities of early types of man in South Africa. Should it appear eventually that the skull is a second ...

they were expected to have close resemblances to the South African fossil. Instead, the Hofmeyr skull is quite distinct from recent sub-Saharan Africans, including the Khoe-San, and has a very close ...

A skull found in a South African cave suggests that the species went through a process of microevolution during a chaotic environmental shift. By Nicholas St. Fleur On Father’s Day in June 2018 ...

sufficient to show that in South Africa we may have the key which will solve the problem of the origin of man. But from 1941 until a few months ago, no further research was undertaken.