Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage. This Nature Q&A series celebrates people who fight racism ...

In a study with several other co-authors, we measured nitrogen isotopes in the enamel from fossilised teeth belonging to the hominin genus Australopithecus, discovered in South Africa’s ...

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 ...