These findings indicate that Australopithecines used tools long before the emergence of the first stone implements. Researchers suggest they may have made tools from perishable materials ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

The Australopithecus diet is much-debated, but has had to be guessed from the shape of fossilized teeth and the tools they ...

Paine is interested in the dispersal and speciation patterns of the australopithecines, focusing on the broad ecological and biogeographical context in which they occurred. His advisor was Matt ...