Sentences with phrase «more australopithecine»

Not exact matches

Paleoanthropologists know a lot more about cutmarks now than they did 20 years ago precisely because bold claims about Australopithecine butchers thrust the research into the spotlight, he says.

«What we really need are more specimens and some trail of fossils that shows us how LB1 got to Flores» while retaining characteristics of australopithecines for more than a million years, Schoenemann observes.

For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

Footprints found in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that the australopithecines that made them 3.75 million years ago had longer toes, a shallower arch, and a more apelike big toe that jutted slightly away from the other toes.

Intriguingly, H. naledi's pelvis was more like that of australopithecines such as Lucy, flaring outward more than that of modern humans.

Regardless of the precise cause, Tocheri says: «It provides further support for the hypothesis that australopithecines... actually used their hands in more humanlike ways.»

We decided to consider not only australopithecines, but also some early Homo individuals, in order to emphasise that the estimated stature of S1 can be comparable to that of more derived taxa, such as Homo erectus sensu lato.

A. sediba «s «face, teeth, pelvis and legs show more human characteristics, and those indicate that this is the most human - like australopithecine yet discovered», says Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the study.

The authors should be more circumspect in reporting their results, acknowledging that the stature estimates from modern humans are likely exaggerations, and focus their interpretations on the more appropriate (but still tenuous) australopithecine - based predictions — still with the caveat about the limitations of the data from which the predictor is derived.

Later, in the 60s, when they found hominin fossils that looked more like later humans than the Australopithecines, in association with those Oldowan tools, they assigned them to a new species: Homo habilis or handy man.

In 1936 he decided to search for more of Dart's australopithecines, and in the same year found a fragmentary skull of an adult at Sterkfontein (which he initially placed in a new genus, Plesianthropus).

H. habilis was small statured, unlike later finds of H. erectus and when more examples of Australopithecus were found in subsequent decades, it was clear the brain size of H. habilis was only slightly larger than that of contemporary australopithecines.

Homo rudolfensis may be the first member of the genus Homo on a path to modern humans, or it may be a more Homo — like australopithecine with no direct bearing on the evolution of H. sapiens.

Clarke points out (1998) that not only has this fossil yielded the most complete australopithecine skull yet found, it has been found in association with the most complete set of foot and leg bones known so far, with more probably still to be extracted from the rock (and since then, the arm and hand has been discovered.)