Sentences with phrase «australopithecine ancestors»

Our australopithecine ancestors, though they were walking upright, had an ape - sized brain about 2.5 million years ago.

Our australopithecine ancestors, though they were walking upright, had an ape - sized brain about 2.5 million years ago.

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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.

Though its physical features are closer to human than other australopithecines, A. sediba is hundreds of thousands of years younger than the oldest fossils assigned to the genus Homo, meaning it is unlikely to be our direct ancestor.

Kate, some human evolution stuff at the meeting about the arguments about some new fossils about whether it's a direct ancestor to Homo sapiens or whether it's an Australopithecine.

In fact, Louis Leakey was the only scientist to ever seriously entertain the idea that OH 5 was a human ancestor - to most other scientists, it seemed obvious that it was some sort of robust australopithecine.

The erectus skull ER 3733 shows a marked jump up to 66 °, indicating that all the previous ancestors had ape - faces and no progression is seen through the australopithecines and «habilis.»

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.