Sentences with phrase «of australopiths»

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

But other types of australopiths also lived during that time, making the genealogy exercise premature.

Tiny middle ear bones belonging to two of our australopith forebears reveal that the hominins lacked our sensitivity to speech frequencies

Not exact matches

William Jungers calls members of Lucy's genus, the australopiths, the «ultimate morphological generalists.»

«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.

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.

Most disruptive of all is the suggestion that not all the species grouped within our own genus are necessarily from a single lineage — or that, perhaps, some of the species considered Homo, such as Homo habilis, are really australopiths.

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).

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.

The small proportion of demonstrably non-local large hominin individuals could indicate that male australopiths had relatively small home ranges...»

«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.»

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.»