Sentences with phrase «robust australopithecine»

In 1938, he found the first robust australopithecine skull at Kromdraai after a schoolboy discovered some teeth at the site.

This is a legitimate fossil, the skull of a robust australopithecine, named OH 5, discovered in 1959 by Louis and Mary Leakey.

In fact, Louis Leakey was the only scientist to ever seriously entertain the idea that OH 5 was a human ancestor - to most other scientists, it seemed obvious that it was some sort of robust australopithecine.

In fact, the face and palate of 1470 are so large that until the braincase was assembled, Richard Leakey thought, judging from the facial bones, that 1470 was a robust australopithecine (Walker and Shipman 1996).

These robust australopithecines chose a risky mating strategy: Top males invested energy in bodybuilding in order to possess a harem of females, much like silverback gorillas do today.»

In the group of robust australopithecines, it is dated to between 2.3 and 1.2 million years ago, and is found only in East Africa.