Human evolution: Meet the ancestors? – pictures

The cranium of the young Australopithecus sediba male
Photograph: Photograph by Brett Eloff/Courtesy of Lee Berger/University of Witwatersrand

Prof Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand with the cranium of the A. sediba juvenile Photograph: Brett Eloff/University of Witwatersrand

A computer reconstruction of the whole A. sediba skull
Photograph: ESRF/Lee Berger/University of Witwatersrand

The right hand of the A. sediba adult female showing the palm side (left) and back (right) Photograph: Science/AAAS

The bones of the right hand from the adult female against a modern human hand. The hand, seen here palm upwards, lacks three wrist bones and four terminal phalanges, but is otherwise complete
Photograph: Lee Berger/University of Witwatersrand

Reconstructed pelvis bones of the juvenile male (left) and adult female (right), from the front (top) and from above Photograph: Peter Schmid/Courtesy of Lee Berger/University of Witwatersrand

Dr Job Kibii (left) and Prof Lee Berger (right) at the Malapa site
Photograph: Peter Schmid/Lee Berger/University of Witwatersrand of Witwatersrand