Sentences with phrase «for australopiths»
Not exact matches
«One of our major results is that we found no evidence that the earliest members of our genus differed in body mass from earlier australopiths (some of the earliest species of hominins),» said Dr. Grabowski, who is also a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo.
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Although H. naledi's cranium is shaped like that of H. erectus, its brain size is that of an earlier australopith, and tiny for its 5 - foot - tall body.
These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.
«However,» he added, «there is some evidence for these type of cut - marks at 3.4 million years ago, a time period only associated with australopiths.»
For example, he wonders if all australopiths had human - like hands, or if it was just A. africanus.
Paleoanthropologists have been trying for decades to learn more about how australopiths evolved into Homo.