Sentences with phrase «afarensis found»

Lucy is small compared with other specimens of Australopithecus afarensis found at the same site.

Not exact matches

There are many transitional fossils: reptiles to birds (like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx, Protarchaeopteryx), mammal to whale fossils (whale fossils have been found with legs, like Rodhocetus and Basilosaurus), and yes, even ape - to - human fossils (like Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus).

The 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton was the most complete example of Australopithecus afarensis ever found.

BIG MARKS Footprints of the largest known Australopithecus afarensis, dating to nearly 3.7 million years ago, have been found in hardened volcanic ash at Tanzania's Laetoli site.

He thinks all the variation seen — even in the latest find — could just be diversity within Australopithecus afarensis.

Fossils of a new species of Australopithecus have been found near the site of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, suggesting the two species interacted

A. africanus is closely related to Lucy and her kin (Australopithecus afarensis), the gracile hominids found in the East African Rift Valley at Hadar, at Laetoli in Tanzania and elsewhere.

Paleoanthropologists have found the bones and teeth of hundreds of individuals of A. afarensis from between 3 million and 4 million years ago.

Previous studies on A. afarensis, including the famed Lucy, the most complete example of the species ever found, concluded that the male - to - female size ratio was about 15 percent — on a par with that of humans.

University of Arkansas anthropologist Mike Plavcan recently reexamined fossils of one of our earliest bipedal ancestors, the 4 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis, and found hominids may not have been as marriage minded as previously thought.

reationists have been making the claim that Donald Johanson found the knee joint of «Lucy,» a 40 % - complete skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis, in a location «Sixty to seventy meters lower in the strata and two to three kilometers away» (Willis 1987).

A full account of the paper, entitled «An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso - Mille ``, can be found on Cosmic Log.

(See the story «Hobbit Symposium Held», below) Although given the genus name Homo, the fossils found a few years ago in Indonesia exhibit many traits, especially in the hands and feet, of much earlier members of the hominin lineage, particularly Australopithecus afarensis, which lived three million years ago and is not thought to have migrated out of Africa.

The skeletal material was found in sandstone in the Woronso - Mille paleontological study area that lies some three dozen miles north of Hadar, the fossiliferous site that has yielded since 1973, the most fossils from a single site attributed to a single species, Australopithecus afarensis, the same species designation claimed for Kadanuumuu.

Several more bones from this species have been found in Ethiopia, including the famed «Lucy,» a nearly complete A. afarensis skeleton found in Hadar.

Later in the decade, specimens dated to 2.3 mya were found nearby at Hadar, the site where «Lucy», Australopithecus afarensis, was found in 1974.

Further information on Australopithecus afarensis and Homo erectus can be found by visiting the timeline, the Human Lineage Through Time, on this website and clicking on their names.