Sentences with phrase «with australopiths»

«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.»

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

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).

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.»