These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered. (sciencedaily.com)
But other types of australopiths also lived during that time, making the genealogy exercise premature. (sciencemag.org)
«One of our major results is that we found no evidence that the earliest members of our genus differed in body mass from earlier australopiths (some of the earliest species of hominins),» said Dr. Grabowski, who is also a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo. (sciencedaily.com)