Sentences with phrase «famous australopithecine»
These jawbones dated 3.5 million to 3.3 million years ago may belong to a cousin of the famous australopithecine «Lucy.»
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Around 2 million years ago, only about one in 10 Australopithecines — the modest - brained hominids exemplified by the famous fossil Lucy — who made it to adulthood lived to twice the age of sexual maturity.
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...
He was rummaging through boxes of animal bones previously excavated in the Sterkfontein caves, about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, where a number of fossils of australopithecines — advanced apes similar to the famous Lucy — have been discovered.