How To Use Australopithecus In A Sentence
- Australopithecus postcranial skeletons demonstrate that these forms were upright bipeds.
- If Australopithecus is sexually dimorphic and Ardipithecus isn't, that's kind of peculiar. Catch a Pithecus by the Toe
- Five fossil human skulls show how the shape of the face and braincase of early humans changed over the past 2.5 million years. (from left to right: Australopithecus africanus, 2.5 million years old; Homo rudolfensis, 1.9 million years old; Homo erectus, ~ 1 million years old; Homo heidelbergensis, ~350,000 years old; Homo sapiens, ~ 4,800 years old) Smithsonian human origins exhibit elicits awe, protests
- Hominidae, the mammalian family that includes modern humans and their immediately extinct ancestors, contains four genera: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo.
- The semicircular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great apes.
- Associated Press Head of prehuman species, Australopithecus sediba, was found in 2008. New Face in Human Family Tree
- That’s when the first skull of a human ancestor was unearthed in Africa: the Taung child, now recognized as a member of Australopithecus africanus, which lived about 3 million to 2 million years ago.
- But White would say there's a better question to ask: Would it be possible to derive Australopithecus from Ardipithecus parts?
- It may take years to confirm exactly where Ardi fits in the history of human evolution. One possibility is that she is a direct ancestor of Lucy's species, Australopithecus.
- It belonged to the early hominid whom her husband Louis named Zinjanthropus - later Australopithecus - boisei.
