by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 12, 2007 | Africa, Australopithecus afarensis, Skeleton
"…[W]hat is the benefit of taking one of the most iconic examples of the human story from Africa to parade it around in second-level museums in the United States?" asked Richard Leakey in an Associated Press interview. Leakey is protesting the...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 12, 2007 | Africa, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Prehistoric humans, Skeleton
The discovery of a jawbone and skull from two ancient hominids by mother and daughter team Maeve and Louise Leakey suggest that the human family tree may need rewriting. Unearthed in Kenya, the remains of Homo habilis and Homo erectus indicate that the two lived...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 18, 2007 | Africa, First human..., Genes, Prehistoric humans, Skeleton
Modern humans originated in Sub-saharan Africa, and from there spread all over the globe. Cambridge scientists, who published their study today in Nature, used genetic information combined with the measurements of 6000 skulls from collections all over the world in...
