A new method to estimate sexual dimorphism in fossil species near the base of our family tree has been just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), through the joint ...

Let’s get one thing straight: Willow Smith’s “Ardipithecus” is, by any measure, better than any pop record you will ever hear from a 15 year old. Smith, the sole writer and producer for almost the ...

Teen visionary Willow Smith has been dropping allusions to December 11 on Twitter, and now it’s clear why. This morning, the singer releases her debut album Ardipithecus, available on U.S. iTunes here ...

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As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi — short for Ardipithecus ramidus — ...

Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the ...

Scientists from Berkeley, Cleveland and Japan may have finally identified the first complete species of hominids, or human ancestors, that emerged almost 6 million years ago, after the evolutionary ...

It is hard to remember that Willow Smith is just 15-years-old at times. The expressive offspring of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith is already an accomplished musician, actress and fashion model and often ...

Out of the album's 15 tracks, Smith is credited as sole songwriter on 14 of them and sole producer on 10. Other production credits go to her older brother AcE (Trey Smith) on three of the tracks and ...

If her social media activity is any indication, Willow Smith doesn’t speak (or tweet) unless she has something compelling to share. Accordingly, Willow’s cryptic tweets about Dec. 11 seemed to signal ...