How To Use Australopithecus In A Sentence
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Australopithecus postcranial skeletons demonstrate that these forms were upright bipeds.
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If Australopithecus is sexually dimorphic and Ardipithecus isn't, that's kind of peculiar.
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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
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Hominidae, the mammalian family that includes modern humans and their immediately extinct ancestors, contains four genera: Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo.
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The semicircular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great apes.
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Associated Press Head of prehuman species, Australopithecus sediba, was found in 2008.
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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.
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But White would say there's a better question to ask: Would it be possible to derive Australopithecus from Ardipithecus parts?
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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.
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It belonged to the early hominid whom her husband Louis named Zinjanthropus - later Australopithecus - boisei.
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The newfound species has been named Australopithecus sediba, a blend of the established Latin term for "southern ape" and the word for "wellspring" in the SeSotho language.
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The period is an especially muddled one for palaeontology, being full of fragmentary fossils that are difficult to assign either to Homo or to Australopithecus.
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The teeth and the jaws of the Australopithecus resemble the teeth of a present species of baboon Theropithecus gelada in Ethiopia.18 This is probably because they are both adapted to eat the same type of food.
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She was dated at about 3.5 million years old and was a member of a prehuman genus called Australopithecus.
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Reported in April and known from two 1.9-million-year-old skeletons discovered in a South African cave, Australopithecus sediba offers a glimpse of a hazy time in our lineage's evolution.
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The new finds all belong to a prehuman species of that time called Australopithecus sediba , discovered in 2008.
Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution
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Shockingly, he has even seemed to enjoy the museums, like the one in Dar Es Salaam where we got a private showing of the Australopithecus skull found by Louis and Mary Leakey in Olduvai Gorge.
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Scientists in South Africa announced a hoard of fossil finds documenting a puzzling forerunner to modern mankind belonging to the prehuman species Australopithecus Sediba that lived nearly two million years ago.
Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution
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It seems highly plausible that, as Australopithecus evolved through various intermediates to Homo sapiens, shortening the muzzle all along the way, it did so by the obvious route of retaining juvenile characteristics into adulthood the process called neoteny, mentioned in Chapter 2.
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The first episode looked at one of earliest apes to walk on two legs, a small animal called Australopithecus afarensis.
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This was also the age of ‘Lucy,’ Australopithecus afarensis, and the radiation of robust and gracile hominids which produced the genus Homo.
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Dart christened the fossil Australopithecus Africanus, meaning the "Southern African ape".
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Falk's team looked not only at five Homo erectus skulls, but skulls of earlier hominids from Africa, such as Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus aethiopicus.
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An endocast from Australopithecus africanus, a roughly 3-million-year-old South African hominid species, looks similar to that of LB1, Falk said.
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