Sentences with phrase «afarensis spent»

Now Selam is further illuminating whether A. afarensis spent all its time on the ground or, like an ape, still lived a partially arboreal life, as Wong describes, starting on page 78.

Using super high - resolution CT scans, Kappelman originally planned to learn more about Lucy's movement and lifestyle — researchers have long debated how much time, if any, A. afarensis spent in trees.

Not exact matches

The study offers new insight into the mysterious death of one of paleoanthropology's most iconic individuals, and the scientists involved say it may give clues to how much time her species, Australopithecus afarensis, still spent in the trees.

But paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University says that the new foot bone, along with a «laundry list of other features of the lower limb» make it more likely that A. afarensis was a «terrestrial biped with little time spent in the trees.»