July
25
/ 2021
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 the Australopithecus. A fascinating new study by researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand studied Paranthropus food habits and teeth sheds new light on the evolution of prehistoric humans. The study was published in The Journal of Human Evolution and is available at ScienceDirect . [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"88295","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"700","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"525"}}]] The Paranthropus DNH7 skull (found in the Drimolen Palaeocave System located 25 miles or 40 kilometers north
