Living approximately between 2.6 million years ago and 0.6 million years ago, the Paranthropus genus is closely related to our genus, Homo sapiens , serving as a long-standing close fossil relative to our species. They lived from the end of the Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene, and both these genera are believed to have evolved from […]
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Paranthropus Skull Find Suggests Distant Human Cousins Evolved Quickly
November 11th, 2020 Awake Goy
Researchers have long believed that the distant human ancestor species called Paranthropus robustus were somewhat like modern gorillas, orangutans, and baboons because they thought the males of this species were considerably larger than the females. However, a newly discovered Paranthropus skull suggests that the difference in body size was due to rapid evolution instead of […]