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Scientists reconstruct the face of “Little Foot,” a 4-million-year-old human ancestor

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a closer resemblance to east african fossils in the orbital region Scientists ...
The Conversation

A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date

This research was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Claude Leon Foundation, the DST-NRF Center of Excellence in Palaeosciences, ...
Scientific American

Face of ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ reconstructed for the first time

“Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ancient hominins looked like Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded ...
The Straits Times

Sunset for traditional lecture halls: How polytechnics are rethinking learning and student spaces

Singapore's polytechnics are transforming lecture halls into collaborative spaces, reflecting a shift towards blended learning and student-centric approaches. Examples include SP's green screen studio ...
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Australopithecus fossils are a million years older than thought

New burial dating techniques applied to South African cave sediments reveal that Australopithecus fossils are far older than previously believed. The revised dates reshape early human evolution and ...
Forbes

Google Notebook Rolls Out Lecture Mode With British Flair

The screen displays the inscription ''NotebookLM'' during a meeting between Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on ...
The Guardian

Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...
Boston.com

Boston’s hottest ticket? A bar seat for a lecture from a professor.

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...
The Boston Globe

With its Boston debut, Lectures on Tap brings out a thirst for knowledge

On a windy Thursday night in downtown Boston, the hanging portraits of Bostonians past seemed to watch over the bustling crowd in Democracy Brewing‘s backroom. Sixty young professionals claimed seats ...
CNN

Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...
Reuters

Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage

Ten fossil teeth belong to new Australopithecus species Found in Afar Region, they are 2.65 million years old This species coexisted with an early Homo species Fossils underscore complex nature of ...