Sentences with phrase «australopithecines such»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

They also present evidence for similar differences between the sexes in Australopithecines (early relatives of humans), suggesting that women long ago evolved such scaffolding to compensate for walking upright while supporting their swelling wombs.

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...

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.

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.

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