Sentences with phrase «about australopithecine»

Paleoanthropologists know a lot more about cutmarks now than they did 20 years ago precisely because bold claims about Australopithecine butchers thrust the research into the spotlight, he says.

Not exact matches

Australopithecines proliferated in the rift valleys of eastern Africa about 2.6 million to 4 million years ago.

Around 2 million years ago, only about one in 10 Australopithecines — the modest - brained hominids exemplified by the famous fossil Lucy — who made it to adulthood lived to twice the age of sexual maturity.

He was rummaging through boxes of animal bones previously excavated in the Sterkfontein caves, about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, where a number of fossils of australopithecines — advanced apes similar to the famous Lucy — have been discovered.

The dating discrepancies were largely due to a difference of opinion about how soon the rocks around the bones were formed after Little Foot fell into the cave: Clarke insisted that a great deal of time had passed, while the other researchers concluded that they had probably been laid down relatively soon after the poor australopithecine's fatal accident.

You know, Lucy is believed to be ancestral to all of the later Australopithecines species and also our own genus Homo which includes everything from us to Neandertals, to the little Hobbits of Flores and, you know, we cover all of this in the book, and it's just incredible to see how much new information about all of Lucy's descendants has been uncovered in the past couple of decades, truly an astonishing period for paleoanthropology.

Kate, some human evolution stuff at the meeting about the arguments about some new fossils about whether it's a direct ancestor to Homo sapiens or whether it's an Australopithecine.

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

But despite some modern traits, it has a number of australopithecine features, and a brain size of only about 750 cc (compared to the modern human average of at least 1350 cc).

Our australopithecine ancestors, though they were walking upright, had an ape - sized brain about 2.5 million years ago.

The bonobo brain (top) is about the same size as brains of the bipedal apes, such as the australopithecines.

Our australopithecine ancestors, though they were walking upright, had an ape - sized brain about 2.5 million years ago.