Sentences with phrase «afarensis hominin»

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After studying casts of the Laetoli prints for decades, scientists decided that A. afarensis, though a primitive hominin, walked with a surprisingly modern gait that was not like an ape's.

The body dimensions used in the model — 30 kg for females, 55 kg for males — were based on a group of early human ancestors, or hominins, such as Australopithicus afarensis, the species that includes the famous Ethiopian fossil «Lucy.»

They identified one as a canine with a striking resemblance to the teeth of Australopithecus afarensis, a hominin that lived in Africa around 3 million years ago and gave us the famed «Lucy» fossil.

For decades, palaeoanthropologists have been debating whether Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was the lone hominin living in eastern Africa at the time.

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.

Researchers have long wondered if other upright walking species shared the Rift Valley of Africa with Lucy, particularly after they discovered that several types of hominins were alive at the same time after A. afarensis disappeared 3 million years ago.

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.

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.

afarensis, concluding that these early hominins showed human - like sexual dimorphism and were therefore characterised by a monogamous mating system.

These highly successful early bipedal hominins such as Ardipithecus ramidus or Australopithecus afarensis, were nevertheless relatively small - brained, with a cranial capacity of about 450cm3 compared with modern humans with over 1,500 cm3.

Whether H. floresiensis is correctly attributed to the genus Homo; if actually a member of an earlier member of the hominin lineage, such as H. erectus; could Hobbit belong to A. afarensis and if so how did Honnit's ancestors get to Indonesia; these are all questions difficult to answer on the evidence currently available.

(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.

Since 1973, the fieldwork at Hadar has produced more than 370 fossil specimens of Australopithecus afarensis between 3.4 and 3.0 million years ago — one of the largest collections of a single fossil hominin species in Africa — as well as one of the earliest known fossils of Homo and abundant Oldowan stone tools (ca. 2.3 million).

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.

The 3.2 million - year - old fossilized remains of «Lucy», the most complete example of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis, displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, August 28, 2007 in Texas.

Researchers unearthed footprints thought to belong to Australopithecus afarensis — one of the earliest hominin species — at a site in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1976.

We characterized pelvic shape using a set of 23 3D landmarks in living hominoids: Homo, Pan, Gorilla, Pongo, Hylobates, and Nomascus; three early hominins: Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus afarensis, and Australopithecus africanus; and a Miocene ape, Ekembo nyanzae (Methods and SI Appendix, Fig.