Sentences with phrase «in australopiths»

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.

Not exact matches

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

«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.

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).

2008 Astonishingly well preserved 2 - million - year - old australopith remains, later named A. sediba, are found in a cave in South Africa.

Unfortunately, the australopith - based estimates are based on one individual, the tiny iconic female «Lucy» (A.L.288 - 1), and foot length in this individual is itself estimated.

Detailed morphological comparisons (google e.g. marc verhaegen human evolution) suggest IMO that South - African australopiths are more related to Homo - Pan than to Gorilla, and East - African australopiths more to Gorilla than to Homo - Pan, and that the East - Africans & the South - Africans often evolved in parallel (allopatrically A.africanus - > robustus / / A.afarensis - > boisei), from more gracile to more robust, possibly in response to the same climatic changes (e.g. Pleistocene cooling & drying).

Matthew Tocheri, who is Canada Research Chair in Human Origins at Lakehead University, told Discovery News that the new study makes a convincing case that «australopiths were not only capable of using their hands in more human - like ways than living great apes, but also that they actually used their hands in more human - like ways.

Brian Richmond, a curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, said, «With this study, we finally have evidence of what we long suspected — australopiths used their human - like hand proportions to handle objects in human - like ways.»