Sentences with phrase «fossil australopiths»

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New fossil footprints in Tanzania have spawned a theory that australopiths like Lucy may lived in family groups with a single male and several females

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

We used µCT imaging to compare its external and internal macro-morphology to upper molars of australopiths, and fossil and recent Homo.

And based on that anatomy, Berger and his colleagues argue that A. sediba is an australopith who's closer to Homo than any fossil ever found before.