Australopithecine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term australopithecine refers to two very closely related genera within the Hominina subtribe of the Hominini tribe. They appeared in the Pliocene: • Australopithecus , appeared about 4 millio...
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Labeling of the 2nd group is more contentious. We will call them australopithecines; they all became extinct. ... Anatomy and biology of the australopithecines: ... Male australopithecines were larger in body size. 20-40% taller, 30-40% heavier than females.
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Australopithecines have been discovered in two types: the A. robustus which has massive teeth and boney ridges (sagittal and supramastoid crests), and the A. africanus which is a gracile form with smaller jaws and teeth.
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In 1950, Wilfred Le Gros Clark published a paper which definitively settled the question of whether the australopithecines were apes or not. He performed a morphological study (based on the shape and function) of teeth and jaws, since these formed most of the fossil evidence.
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afarensis is one of the better known australopithecines, merely with regard to the number of samples attributed to the species. ... The species A. afarensis is one of the better known australopithecines, with regards to the number of samples attributed to the species. The species was named by D. Johanson and T. White in 1978.
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While the late australopithecines were similar to humans anatomically below the neck, their heads were significantly different from ours in several key features. Their adult brain size was about 1/3 that of people today.
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Encyclopedia information on Australopithecines ... Australopithecines are a genus of extinct hominids that lived in eastern Africa from about 4.2 Ma until about 1 Ma. Some believe that some of the australopithecine species are directly ancestral to humans, however others hold they are a "side-branch" of the line that led...
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This website features information on Early Human development. ... Types of Early Humans - Australopithecines ... The Australopithecines ate a mixture of different types of food and communicated in a very unsusal way. They ate meat, plants, and fruits. The Australopithecines communicated by looking, and hearing.
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The Earliest Australopithecines ... "Normal" australopithecines ... Knuckle-walking in early australopithecines. Features of the wrist of early Australopithecus are claimed as the traces of "knuckle-walking" in their (and our) ancestors.
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