Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits ...

“Recent discoveries are eroding the usefulness and accuracy of current classification, including the current species in our own genus Homo, but also in Australopithecus and Paranthropus, who all lived ...

Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution challenge the way we currently name and classify our ancestors, according to new research from Monash University. The study, published in the ...