Australopithecus

The species of Australopithecus robustus lived around one to two million years ago in South Africa. The first discovery of this species occurred in 1938, when fossil fragments of a jaw were found at Kromdraai in Southern Africa and presented to Robert Broom. Broom explored the site further and “collected many more bones and teeth that together convinced him he had a new species” (Smithsonian’s National Museum of History). Another well-known site for fossils of this species is the limestone cave of

Australopithecus, group of extinct creatures closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings and known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, central, and southern Africa. The various species of Australopithecus lived during the. As characterized by the fossil evidence, they bore a combination of human. Like humans, they were bipedal (that is, they walked on two legs. But like apes, they had small brains. Their canine teeth were small like those of humans

The phylogeny started off with Proconsul heseloni as the common ancestor to Sivapithecus indicus, Australopithecus afarensis, and Australopithecus Africanus. The reasoning for this was from the approximated age of Proconsul heseloni of 23 million years ago. This places Sivapithecus indicus roughly 15 million years after, suggesting that Sivapithecus indicus directly evolved from Proconsul heseloni. From Proconsul heseloni, it was decided that three species evolved from it. These species included

human species, the Australopithecus Afarensis, was mostly credited to the finding of a single individual, AL 288-1, or “Lucy.” She has helped anthropologists to understand the diet, anatomy, environment, sexual dimorphism, the technology or tools used during their time, and bipedalism of this early hominin. The evolution of humans is interesting due to the questions we are trying to find and the answers we might never find. While investigating the mysteries behind Australopithecus Afarensis, it may

The Australopithecus afarensis believed to have been around in the 3.8 and 3.0 m.y.a. This is thanks to fossils found in two sites, Laetoli in the north of Tanzania and Hadar in the far region of Ethiopia. The fossil most well know is Hadar’s this is because that fossil is actual “Lucy” identified by Discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974 at Hadar. While they only discovered 40% of “Lucy’s” whole skeleton it was far more than Laetoli’s few remains of teeth and jaw fragments. I find it

related, Australopithecus and Paranthropus genera (McHenry 2017). The clade does, however, also include; Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7–6 mya), Orrorin tugenensis (6 mya), Ardipithecus kadabba and Ardipithecus ramidus (5.8–4.4 mya), Kenyanthropus platyops (3.5–3.2 mya), and other human-like primates (McHenry 2017; Szpak 2017). The distribution of Australopithecines stretches across Africa, encompassing species of varying ages and complex relationships (McHenry 2017). Paranthropus and Australopithecus are

Australopithecus garhi is a less robust australopithecine that was discovered in Ethiopia. The first discovery of a A. garhi fossil occurred in 1990, when a mandible was found at the Bouri Formation. Through dating of the fossil, it was found that the mandible was to be about 2.5 million years old. At the time of this find, the only known hominin that would have lived at this time would have been Paranthropus aethiopicus. This mandible, however, had different morphology and characteristics than P

locomotion emerged are still unresolved. However they are all closely dependent on environment reconstructions. This project will contribute to the scientific community's understanding of the environments of the earliest Australopithecine. Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest species of the genus and the first indisputably bipedal hominid. According to paleoecological analyses (isotopes, fauna, soils, etc) (2,3), these hominids were generalists who lived in mosaic environments , e.g. a mix

Australopithecus afarensis: Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best known of the of the australopithecine species with Laetoli footprints found in Tanzania and many bones and bone fragments found in Ethiopia and Kenya. Because of certain very well preserved remains, we can tell a lot about this species. The most famous of these remains is “Lucy”, a skeleton with remains from almost every bone dating 3.2 million years old. This is a sexually dimorphic bipedal species, meaning the males and females

The Australopithecus afarensis was a robust, early australopithecine that lived 3 to 3.6 million years ago (McFarland). The origin of this species name comes from two different factors. The first comes from the genus name, Australopithecus. This genus means “southern ape” and was originally developed for a species found in South Africa. The word afarensis is based on the location where some of the first fossils for this species were first discovered (Dorey). “Lucy” was an Au. afarensis that was discovered