Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung child skull, 100 years since its discovery.

With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

They collected this material from the tooth enamel of an Australopithecus africanus individual whose remains were found in a South African cave decades ago. The method they used, called ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

THOUGH the brain of the young Australopithecus is about 500 c.c. and that of the adult perhaps 600 c.c. or more, the brain of the type Plesianthropus about 450 c.c, and of the beautiful female ...

This week my much-loved eldest sister, M, died. I want to share with you some memories of her through my life. In a few weeks it will be 30 years since my mother died from cancer. It was a difficult ...

Despite the buzz surrounding smart cities in urban-policy circles, studies are lacking on the evidence for what works, what doesn’t — and who benefits.