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UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE—Accurate soft tissue measurements are critical when making reconstructions of human ancestors, a new study from the University of Adelaide and Arizona State University has found.

New remains demonstrate adaptability of this precursor to early humans.

Old and new finds come together to deepen the record of human evolution at the famous South African cave system.

Australopithecus afarensis arm bones were strong relative to leg bones; walking gait was likely inefficient.

Pliocene epoch fossils found at Dikika, Ethiopia, bear stone tool butchery marks, suggest scientists.