#australopithecus

Our ancestors were not so carnivorous. 2001 A Space Odyssey is a work by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubricke, the two of them wrote the script together, but they made a mistake, a latest investigation

The coast-line on Danakil where both the Australopithecus and Paranthropus genus speciated, would have been different from the surrounding regions in that it was an open landscape, where the field of vision

Scally et al shows that 30% of the gorilla genome exhibits incomplete lineage sorting with the human genome and chimpanzee genome, with 15% of the gorilla genome being closer to human than to chimpanzee,

The Galapagos of the Great Apes Iguanas became otters on the Galapagos, finches took on every single bird niche, birds on New Zealand lost their wings, the Kiwi bird became the equivalent of a pig, a ground

Mitochondrial DNA is inherited separately from nuclear DNA (the chromosomes. ) Fragments of mitochondrial DNA are known to get inserted into nuclear DNA to form NUMTs, i.e. nuclear pseudogenes of the mtDNA.

The gorilla lineage may be a result of the Ethopian plateau forming, from compression of the contintental crust at the Afar tripple junction, which later by extension formed the Afar rift as well as the

Gorillas have plenty of subcutaneous fat, where Zihlman et al report 13% and 16% in two female gorilla from a paper in 2000[1], and total body fat up to 44% (Zihlman and McFarland, 2000). The water-adaptations

Only coastal animals would leave a fossil record in Afar[1, 2], that is, animals living along the coast on south-western Danakil, and whatever lived up in the mountains would be lost (fossils are not as

Sudmant et al published a paper[1] in 2013 on a genome sequence analysis of the speciation of gorillas, humans and chimpanzees. Their data shows that there was a gene deletion event in the chimpanzee lineage

Here is, I think, conclusive evidence of gene transfer from Gorillae to gracile Australopithecines 3 million years ago. The data that is interpreted as deletions here, is gene transfer from the gorilla

I came up with the "companion-species" hypothesis the other day, which builds on a 2012 study published in nature.com that 15% of the human genome is closer to gorilla than chimpanzee, as well

Australopithecus got pubic hair lice from ancestors of gorillas around 3.3 million years ago[1]. The geographical proximity of Australopithecines and proto-gorillas, could be the result of that gorillas

The mystery of the death of our most famous human ancestor more than 3 million years ago is now solved. The death of Lucy ( Australopithecus afarensis ), our most famous human ancestor, had been a puzzle.