Sentences with phrase «afarensis from»

Jaws and Teeth of Australopithecus afarensis from Maka, Middle Awash, Ethiopia.

afarensis from both skeletal material and footprint data.

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

«This means that everything that has been written about variation, function and the anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis from fragmentary remains must now be in doubt.»

Until now, Little Foot was considered a more recent species than Lucy, the famous 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis from Ethiopia often cited as our direct ancestor.

Not exact matches

How do Adam and Eve relate to what we have learned about the evolution of modern humans from Australopithecus afarensis and Homo habilis?

From top to bottom: Australopithecus afarensis (4 - 3 million years; ~ 40 kg, 130 cm); Homo ergaster (1.9 - 1.4 million years; 55 - 60 kg; ~ 165 cm); Neanderthal (200.000 - 30.000 years; ~ 70 kg; ~ 163 cm).

Fossils from A. afarensis date to between 3.7 and 3 million years ago, so the two species would have overlapped (though Lucy herself may have lived too recently to see one).

Take our ancestor Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), who stood less than four feet tall, swung from tree branches, and ran easily along the ground on two feet more than 3 million years ago.

Or maybe hobbits had descended from Australopithecus afarensis — Lucy's kin — since that species was a highly adaptable biped that spread over great masses of African land.

Most experts agree that our genus evolved from a species of Australopithecus — either A. afarensis (Lucy's species) or A. africanus.

Now, a 3.2 - million - year - old foot bone from a member of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, reveals that this hominin was no flat foot: It had already evolved arches and a stiff midfoot similar to living humans.

Whatever its name, others agree that the foot is unexpectedly primitive for 3.4 million years ago: «I would have expected such a foot from a much older hominin, not one that overlapped with A. afarensis, which has a much more derived foot than this thing,» says paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University, who is not a member of Haile - Selassie's team.

Most agree that Lucy's foot and mode of walking were already quite modern, thanks to a few 3.2 - million - year - old foot bones from A. afarensis adults, a 3.3 - million - year - old infant, and 3.7 - million - year - old footprints in Tanzania, thought to be made by the same species.

The only hominin fossil remains in the area dating to that time are from Australopithecus afarensis.

These are thought to have been made by three members of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis — the same species as the famous «Lucy» from Ethiopia — around 3.66 million years ago.

A dozen new footprints from the S1 (N = 11) and S2 (N = 1) trails are sufficiently complete to estimate the body sizes of their makers (again, presumably A. afarensis) as well as approximate walking speeds.

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

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.

The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year - old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.

Scientists now have about 400 fossils from her species, Australopithecus afarensis (AF - ar - EN - sis).

FEET LIKE APE, A. afarensis... The recent description of four articulating foot bones from 3 - 3.5 Myr deposits in the South African cave site of Sterkfontein support this.

Perhaps as early as 3.4 million years ago, the modern human ancestor Australopithecus afarensis was using stone tools to strip meat from the bones of large mammals.