A groundbreaking discovery in paleoanthropology has uncovered evidence that Homo erectus, one of our earliest human ancestors, coexisted with another distinct proto-human species, Paranthropus boisei, ...

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Paranthropus boisei is, in evolutionary terms, sort of a great-uncle of modern humans. Around 2.5 million years ago, our common ancestors the Australopithecines split into two new genuses, ...

Paranthropus boisei, the more distantly related to modern humans of the two, lived from about 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago, standing up to about 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) tall.

“Paranthropus boisei went extinct not long after the time of the footprints, however, but it’s unclear whether this was because of environmental changes, competition from other (non-human ...

The first specimen of Paranthropus boisei, also called Nutcracker Man, was reported by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 from a site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. National Science Foundation.

The first skull of a Paranthropus boisei individual was discovered by co-author Meave Leakey’s in-laws, Mary and Louis Leaky, in 1959 in Tanzania. In 2006, a team led by Sponheimer found that a cousin ...

This image shows the palate and maxillary teeth of Paranthropus boisei, also called Nutcracker Man. Donald C. Johanson. Year-old baboons there eat large quantities of C4 plants known as tiger nuts ...

image: Paranthropus boisei, an ancient human relative that was nicknamed "Nutcracker Man" because of its powerful jaws and large, flat teeth, did not eat nuts but instead dined primarily on ...

“If Homo erectus ate considerably more animal foods than Paranthropus boisei, that alone would guarantee rather different niches,” Sponheimer told Salon in a phone interview.“We have very ...

The skull of Paranthropus boisei (“Zinj,” “Dear Boy,” “Nutcracker Man,” etc.). Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments ...

KNM-ER 732, a partial cranium of a female Paranthropus boisei has many characteristic P. boisei features. Most notable is the forward placed root of the zygomatic arch, resulting in a wide flat face.