https://phys.org/news/2020-11-newly-fossil-small-scale-evolutionary-extinct.html

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

by Talia Ogliore,Washington University in St. Louis

Males of the extinct human species Paranthropus robustus were thought to be substantially larger than females—much like the size differences seen in modern-day primates such as gorillas, orangutans and baboons. But a new fossil discovery in South Africa instead suggests that P. robustus evolved rapidly during a turbulent period of local climate change about 2 million years ago, resulting in anatomical changes that previously were attributed to sex.https://9784545134c4db1a6ecc2077996b5cc4.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

An international research team including anthropologists at Washington University in St. Louis reported their discovery from the fossil-rich Drimolen cave system northwest of Johannesburg in the journalNature Ecology…