Sentences with phrase «as australopithecines»

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

Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2 - million - year - old relative Homo erectus — but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.

Not exact matches

To start, the trio butchered a sheep carcass with sharp stone flakes and found that the cutmarks indeed resembled those found on two different Australopithecine fossil arm bones — one dating to 4.2 million years ago and the other to 3.4 million years ago — as well as 2.5 - million - year - old animal bones discovered near the known stone tools in the Olduvai Gorge.

That skeleton makes sense if australopithecines slept in trees at night to escape predators, as chimps do today.

Features such as small brain size, slight build and very long arms link the creature to the australopithecines, especially A. africanus.

For this reason, a few anthropologists, such as David Begun at the University of Toronto in Canada, have suggested that our ape ancestors spent a formative period in Europe — although they still agree that later hominin evolution, including that of the australopithecines and the origin of our own species, occurred solely in Africa.

But australopithecines, such as the famous Lucy, lived in Africa between 1.4 and 4.5 million years ago, whereas the Liang Bua hominid lived...

5 million years ago, as we were splitting from australopithecines

Intriguingly, H. naledi's pelvis was more like that of australopithecines such as Lucy, flaring outward more than that of modern humans.

The researchers also found that an australopithecine baby's head probably could not have fit through Lucy's pelvic opening, as shown here.

The human lineage, the genus Homo, and its close relatives, including australopithecines such as the famed Lucy, are together referred to as hominins.

Stone tools have been found at sites with Australopithecus fossils, as well as bones with possible cut marks dating back to 3.2 million to 3.4 million years ago, but in the absence of a fossil hand gripping a tool, it has been impossible to prove that australopithecines made and used tools.

Until Toumaï was found, such dentition was thought to have originated in australopithecines, as many as 2 million to 3 million years after Toumaï lived.

We decided to consider not only australopithecines, but also some early Homo individuals, in order to emphasise that the estimated stature of S1 can be comparable to that of more derived taxa, such as Homo erectus sensu lato.

Estimates reveal that their brains were comparable in size to those of some of the world's first known humans, australopithecines, as well as those of today's gorillas, Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who did not directly work on the project, told Discovery News.

Although Lubenow considers 1470 to be human, he would place the smaller habilis fossils such as OH 24, ER 1805 and ER 1813 in the australopithecines.

One school holds that as well as being bipedal they retained considerable climbing ability (McHenry, 1986, 1992, 1994; Stern & Susman, 1991; Duncan et al., 1994; Berger & Tobias, 1996; Berge, 1998; Macchiarelli et al., 1999); the other sees the powerful arms and funnel - shaped thorax as primitive retentions, and argue that australopithecines were obligate terrestrial bipeds (White & Suwa, 1987; Lovejoy, 1988; Latimer, 1991; Tuttle et al., 1991; Gebo, 1996; Ohman et al., 1997).

After the Piltdown fraud was exposed, the australopithecines came into favour as a transitional form linking an ape - like common - ancestor to human beings, and this link was further strengthened by later finds of both erectus and australopithecine fossils, mainly in East and South.

One Australopithecine fossil - a 3 1/2 - foot - tall, long - armed, 60 - pound adult called Lucy - was initially presented as evidence that all Australopithecines walked upright in a human manner.

However, even from the bones that have been revealed so far, Little Foot looks like being at least as complete and important as Lucy, and will add tremendously to our knowledge of australopithecines.