Sentences with phrase «australopithecine not»

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«Ground nesting can become established despite the presence of predators and without the use of fire,» says Koops, adding that this suggests australopithecines may have slept on the ground too.

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.

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

Unlike the East African discoveries, all the southern gracile australopithecines were found in caves, but these hominids were probably not cave - dwellers.

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.

The use of the modern human reference samples for stature estimates are inappropriate because they assume body proportions akin to modern humans, which are not possessed by australopithecines.

A. sediba «s «face, teeth, pelvis and legs show more human characteristics, and those indicate that this is the most human - like australopithecine yet discovered», says Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the study.

The Kanapoi elbow, dated at 4.5 million, is «fully human», so all these australopithecines and whatnot can not be ancestral to us because a modern human was already in existence; his thorough - or, let us say, thoroughly selective - combing of the literature has overlooked a paper by Marc R. Feldesman (1982, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 59:73 - 95) which finds that Kanapoi is very far from being modern human.

«KNM - ER 1470, like other early Homo specimens, shows many morphological characteristics in common with gracile australopithecines that are not shared with later specimens of the genus Homo» (Cronin et al. 1981)

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.

There is no reason not to connect the australopithecines to humans, except in the belief system of creationists.

Clarke points out (1998) that not only has this fossil yielded the most complete australopithecine skull yet found, it has been found in association with the most complete set of foot and leg bones known so far, with more probably still to be extracted from the rock (and since then, the arm and hand has been discovered.)

Richard Leakey published evidence in 1971 indicating that the Australopithecines were «knucklewalkers» not unlike the living African apes which are long - armed, short - legged knucklewalkers.12 In 1975 a quantitative computerized comparison of the bones of modern apes, Australopithecines and man placed the three kinds of creatures in three separated groups.

While these features seem to support the notion that it is not an australopithecine, several other features do not support the habilis distinction.

Although many specimens have been found in breccias, australopithecines did not normally live in caves.