Sentences with phrase «hominid australopithecus»

«Lucy,» the 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis (left) and «Neo,» a skeleton of Homo naledi (right) that was dated as being roughly 250,000 years old.

«The new fossils superbly document the link between modern whales and their land - based forebears,» he concludes, «and should take their place among other famous «intermediates,» such as the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, and the early hominid Australopithecus.

At around 1 metre tall she is far shorter even than modern Pygmies, who range from 1.3 to 1.4 metres, and roughly the same size as the relatively primitive hominid Australopithecus.

Leakey and her colleagues call the new hominid Australopithecus anamensis.

In this inherited malady, the brain is typically just 400 cc — roughly the same size as that of the early hominid Australopithecus africanus, of which «Lucy» is the best - known specimen.

Not exact matches

At the time, Falk argued that four endocasts from southern African hominids — three Australopithecus africanus and one Australopithecus sediba — showed folding patterns that suggested that brain reorganization was underway as early as 3 million years ago in a frontal area involved in human speech production.

The supposed ancient butchers in question were members of the same species as the famed fossil Lucy: Australopithecus afarensis, a hominid that lived in Ethiopia's Afar region between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago.

Berger thinks Karabo and an adult female found nearby represent a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, that may have been the first to walk upright the way modern humans do.

Rather, hominids appear to have originated and persisted within more closed, wooded habitats until the emergence of more ecologically aggressive Australopithecus.

Early hominids have even been posited to have possibly interbred with chimpanzees until just before the appearance of Australopithecus in the fossil record.

A note reminds us that between 3.5 and 1.5 million years ago, at least 11 different hominid species lived in Africa — many of them (like our notorious strolling couple) members of the genus Australopithecus, which went extinct about 1.4 million years ago.

One display case contains the casts of an array of hominid skulls: the robust, massive - jawed 1.6 - million - year - old Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans, South Africa; the flat - faced 1.7 - million - year - old Paranthropus boisei from East Turkana, Kenya; the tiny skull and fossilized brain of the 2.5 - million - year - old Taung child, or Australopithecus africanus, found at Sterkfontein, South Africa.

Two South African hominids from between roughly 1 million and 3 million years ago, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, show lower rates of tooth chipping than H. naledi, at about 21 percent and 13 percent, respectively, the investigators find.

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

A. africanus is closely related to Lucy and her kin (Australopithecus afarensis), the gracile hominids found in the East African Rift Valley at Hadar, at Laetoli in Tanzania and elsewhere.

When Whitcome's team compared the spines of one male and one female Australopithecus africanus, an early bipedal hominid that lived roughly 2 million years ago, it found differences in the number of wedged vertebrae.

The co-author on the paper, Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy, is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, well known for his reconstructions of the socioecology and locomotor behavior of early hominids such as «Ardi» (Ardipithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old) and «Lucy» (Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 million years old).

University of Arkansas anthropologist Mike Plavcan recently reexamined fossils of one of our earliest bipedal ancestors, the 4 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis, and found hominids may not have been as marriage minded as previously thought.

And the big hominid tree of life going back all the way to Australopithecus is probably pretty accurate,» Bohlender says.

The Human Fossils Record: Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (Genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin) and Overview.

Book Review: The Human Fossil Record, Volume Four: Craniodental Morphology of Early Hominids (General Australopithecus, Paranthropus, Orrorin), and Overview by J.H. Schwartz and I. Tattersall.