A new paper suggests that early humans had ape-like brains which may have undergone and exhibited human-like growth and plasticity. It seems that Australopithecus afarensis, a species of early ...

New scans of the inside of Australopithecus skulls reveal these extinct hominins had surprisingly ape-like brains that developed more like human brains.

Skull scans reveal evolutionary secrets of fossil brains Australopithecus afarensis ('Lucy') had ape-like brain organization, but prolonged brain growth like humans Date: April 1, 2020 Source ...

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked like, according to a new study. The 13-million-year-old infant ...

Anthropologists in Kenya have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull that reveals what the common ancestor of all living humans and apes would have looked like.

And one professor's persistence there would pay off in a monumental discovery: a rare, complete skull of a baby ape that could give scientists a glimpse at what our common ancestors looked like.

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked like, according to a new study.

The newly announced discovery of an ancient skull from Kenya shows what an ancestor of apes and humans may have looked like. The creature, nicknamed Alesi, had a balance organ in its ears that ...

The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes -- including a likely African origin, scientists said ...

The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The find belongs to an infant which lived about 13 ...

It's an ape." Brunet, of the University of Poitiers in France, claims the skull is a human ancestor with a combination of features like humans and chimps.