Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil, named after the small town near where it was found, led to the understanding that humans and their ancestors ...

Seven of the sample teeth were from Australopithecus africanus, and the remainder were from five other mammalian families. They then did the same with teeth from several modern species ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...

The teeth of some Australopithecus species ... but its brain was larger than that of the Australopithecus africanus. Their fossils were found with mammals that lived in dry grasslands.

I gather and study ancient proteins from the enamel off teeth from extinct hominin finds, in particular South African species such as Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus.

The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus ... nitrogen in the Australopithecus teeth aligned closely with fossils of ...