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| | Australopithecus anamensis |
 | | Though most of the Australopithecus anamensis specimens were taken from this level, the assemblage does not include any postcranial material, and mainly consists of elements of this hominid's dentition [Andrews, 1995]. | | | The initial find consisted of a partial left humerus [Johanson and Edgar, 1996]. | | | This has not been decisively shown, but, if true, would bring up a very interesting possibility. |
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| | Australopithecus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Taung child was the type of specimen of the early hominid species "Australopithecus Africanus" and it was believed to be about 3,5 to 4 when it died almost | | | A cranium specimen recovered from W Turkana, Kenya, is attributed to the robust species A. | | | The hominid who ate antelope for dinner.(Australopithecus garhi discovered in Ethiopia)(Brief Article) |
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| | Evidences of Creation.com |
| | Having studied the bones of these fossils for a period of 15 years, with funding from the British government, Lord Zuckerman and his team of 5 specialists reached the conclusion — although Zuckerman was an evolutionist himself — that Australopithecines were only an ordinary ape species and were definitely not bipedal. | | | Scientific findings countered the evolutionist propositions on "Lucy", the most famous specimen of the Australopithecus species. | | | This site is based on the works of Harun Yahya. |
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| | The Antiquity of Man Black Skull |
| | Johanson was sure to repeatedly point out that more specimens from East Africa will have to be uncovered to support or oust his theory. | | | The yeilds included specimens of Homo habilis, Australopithecus/Paranthropus boisei and the then new and equivocal species termed Australopithecus afarensis. | | | A crucial part in his argument for the disregard of the Australopithecus genus name was that the South African "specimens from Taung, Sterkfontein, and Makapansgat could be accorded membership in the genus Homo as the species H. africanus" (Tattersall 1988: 72). |
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| | Children of the Ice Age : How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve |
| | Stanley, a paleobiologist, contends that this came about because of the "catastrophic birth" spawned by the sudden and random effects of the modern ice age in Africa. | | | The majority of the book details Stanley's ideas and the facts he has found to support them. | | | The idea is that form had to follow function. |
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| | Australopithecus africanus |
| | In an artcile he wrote for the magazing "Nature", Dart made the highly controversial statement, in that claimed his find to have been a descendent of humanity. | | | ~Taung is the type specimen for Australopithecus africanus | | | Upon being joined in his research by one, Robert Broom, the duo were to uncover further examples of this specimen that they were to name Australopithecus africanus. |
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| | Australopithecus garhi |
| | Finally, a basicranial specimen (Sts 19) from Sterkfontein, found in amongst the Australopithecus africanus remains, has quite a number of Homo-like details of the form of the ear region, all of which distinguish it from any australopithecine. | | | The type specimen of Australopithecus garhi is a partial cranium; from nearby sites, and perhaps belonging to the same species or perhaps not, come several postcranial bones including a partial skeletons, a fragment of a second cranium, and two mandibles (one fairly complete). | | | Australopithecus africanus, the earliest described species, from South Africa; it has long known from the sites of Taung, Sterkfontein and Makapansgat, and recently specimens have begun to be excavated at other sites in the Sterkfontein Valley (Drimolen and Gladysvale). |
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http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/cg_australopithecus_garhi.htm
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| | Australopithecus africanus - EvoWiki |
| | But many scientists of the time considered the specimen to be an aberrant form of ape because they assumed that the origin of mankind lay in Asia or Europe. | | | This means that the Taung child was bipedal with an erect posture. | | | This page was last modified 13:49, 27 November 2004. |
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http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Australopithecus_africanus
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| | The Genus Australopithecus |
| | The initial find consisted of a partial left humerus. | | | Australopithecus garhi was believed to have existed between 2 and 3 | | | Australopithecus africanus appeared to be apelike in having a protruding face and small brain, but had distinctly unapelike dentition, including small canines and large, flat molars. |
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| | Australopithecus garhi |
| | Nearby, in 1997, Yohannes Haile-Selassie found the exposed skullcap of the type specimen of Australopithecus garhi. | | | Excavation at the site produced pieces of a partial skeleton and antelope bones with stone tool marks. | | | garhi may represent an evolutionary link between the genera of Australopithecus and Homo. |
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http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/garhi.html
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| | Australopithecus boisei |
| | Other scientists believe that the Australopithecus robustus evolved from Australopithecus africanus instead(2). | | | The results of this situation would vary where either one of the species would be overpowered, or new species would not be able to evolve due to the competition. | | | The Australopithecus robustus and the Australopithecus boisei are very similar to each other and are thought to have descended from the Australopithecus aethiopicus. |
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| | The Politburo Diktat » Blog Archive » Australopithecus anamensis |
| | The Politburo Diktat » Blog Archive » Australopithecus anamensis | | | The Commissar, not hewing to the Party Line since 2003 | | | Until recently, the origins of Australopithecus were obscured by a sparse fossil record. |
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http://acepilots.com/mt/2006/04/12/australopithecus-anamensis/trackback
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| | Australopithecus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The gracile australopithecines (members of the genus Australopithecus) are a group of extinct hominids that are closely related to humans. | | | The morphology of Australopithecus upsets what scientists previously believed, namely, that large complex brains came first and was followed by bipedalism. | | | Although the intelligence of these early hominines was likely no more sophisticated than modern apes (more or less), the bipedal stature is the key evidence which distinguishes the group from previous primates who are quadrupeds. |
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| | Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Australopithecus afarensis is a hominid which lived between 3.9 to 3 million years ago belonging to the genus Australopithecus, of which the first skeleton was discovered on November 24, 1974 by Donald Johanson, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. | | | A diorama of Australopithecus afarensis and other human predecessors showing each species in its habitat and demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe it had is in the Hall of Human Biology and Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. | | | Another species, called Ardipithecus ramidus, has been found, which was fully bipedal, yet appears to have been contemporaneous with a woodland environment, and, more importantly, contemporaneous with Australopithecus afarensis. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis
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| | Australopithecus |
| | Australopithecus would not have been able to breathe as we do when running. | | | Bones of the inner ear of Australopithecus resemble those of the chimpanzees and gorillas more than humans, suggesting that either, these creatures were very early on the path of bipedalism or were not fully bipedal. | | | Recently another possible hominid, that may have been bipedal, has been discovered and named Orrorin tugenensis. |
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| | Australopithecus - Britannica Concise |
| | Lateral view of an Australopithecus africanus skull found at … | | | Australopithecus - The best-known member of Australopithecus is A. afarensis, discovered in deposits in East Africa and ranging in age from 3.8 to 2.9 million years old. | | | The various species of Australopithecus lived during the Pliocene Epoch, which lasted from 5.3 to 1.8 million years ago (mya). |
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http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9356171
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| | Australopithecus africanus |
| | Australopithecus robustus lived from 2.0 to 1.0 million years ago. | | | Australopithecus aethiopicus lived from 2.7 to 2.3 million years ago. | | | About 3 million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis gave rise to two distinct evolutionary lines: one leading into the first humans, and the other into the robust australopithecines. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Paleontology/Paleozoology/FossilHominids/ChartHumanEvolution/Australopithecusafricanus.htm
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| | Hominid Species |
| | Australopithecus aethiopicus, robustus and boisei are known as robust australopithecines, because their skulls in particular are more heavily built. | | | Australopithecus afarensis and africanus, and the other species above, are known as gracile australopithecines, because of their relatively lighter build, especially in the skull and teeth. | | | Australopithecus, Homo) which is always capitalized, and a specific name (e.g. |
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| | Evolution: Humans: Origins of Humankind |
| | Australopithecus afarensis had a very low forehead, a face that projected far forward (as viewed in profile), and a very prominent brow ridge. | | | Australopithecus afarensis (3.6 to 2.9 million years ago) |
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| | Australopithecus anamensis |
| | Nine hominid dental, cranial and postcranial specimens from Kanapoi, Kenya, and 12 specimens from Allia Bay, Kenya, were described as a new species of Australopithecus in the August 17, 1995 issue of Nature. | | | Australopithecus anamensis fossils were initially discovered in 1965, when the distal end of a humerus (KNM-KP 271) was recovered at Kanapoi. | | | The relationship between Australopithecus afarensis and Ardipithecus ramidis, a potential ancestral species for all Hominidae, can now be assessed with more temporally intermediate evidence. |
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| | Phylogenesis of «australopithecus» |
| | This new and up-dated monograph titled ""Australopithecus" Phylogenesis Reconstruction by the Method of Comparative Analysis of Typical Features" has been recently published in Russian by "Saratov University Press" and from now is being also displayed at the same web-site. | | | The fact of publishing of these two monographs devoted in the aggregate to the origin and phylogenesis of bipedal primates entitles the author to nominate the new web-site as: "Phylogenesis of "australopithecus". | | | The author is also very grateful for the absolutely indispensable technical assistance in preparation this edition to the English translator, former United Nations Interpreter, Ghennady V. Alexeyev for the professional and meticulous job done. |
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| | Search Results for "Australopithecus" |
| | Australopithecus, (ostra´lopith´ks, -pthe´ks) (KEY), an extinct genus of the hominid family found in Africa between about 4 and 1 million years ago. | | | ...family has also included Neanderthals and other forerunners of today s humans, such as Australopithecus, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis. | | | ...lived from about 12 to 14 million years ago, for a time regarded as a possible ancestor of Australopithecus and, therefore, of modern humans. |
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| | Alta Vista: Simple Query australopithecus |
| | Australopithecus boisei (1.2 to 2 million years), lived during one of Earth's glacial periods. | | | This is a cranium of Australopithecus africanus, which lived in southern Africa between about 3 and 2 million years... | | | Australopithecus africanus, one of the two gracile species of Australopithecus could be found inhabiting South Africa 3 to 2 million years... |
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| | Thus Spake Australopithecus.: July 2004 |
| | The couple left the gynecologist's office with the wife in tears.They were just told that she could never become pregnant. | | | Women claim that they never pursue a man. | | | The ideas are good..translation is problem.What to do we are lathat only. |
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| | Human Ancestors Hall: Austalopithecus afarensis |
| | For its antiquity, A. afarensis is one of the better known species of early human, with specimens collected from over 300 individuals. | | | Reader, and and cannot be used or reproduced without his consent. | | | Inhabiting eastern Africa between four and three million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis was a long-lived species that may have given rise to the several lineages of early human that appeared in both eastern and southern Africa between two and three million years ago. |
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http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/afar.html
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| | Australopithecus robustus |
| | Skeletons in your closet 8 - Australopithecus robustus | | | It is often lumped with the other, more typical, robust australopithecines, and is believed to have lived between 1.8 and 1 mya. | | | Originally named Zinjanthropus by Louis Leakey, it has since been taxonomically reevaluated and placed within the species Australopithecus boisei. |
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| | Australopithecus |
| | Australopithecus afarensis existed from 3.7 to 3.0 million years ago. | | | All members of the genus Australopithecus are found in Africa. | | | It was discovered in 1974 by Don Johansen, and is named after the Afar tribe of Ethiopia, who live in the region where Lucy was discovered. |
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| | Australopithecus ramidus—‘the missing link’? |
| | The announcement of the discovery of Australopithecus ramidus | | | Indeed, Wood, in reviewing the work, raised the question as to whether it would have been more appropriate to allocate the specimen to the genus Pan (chimpanzees) rather than Australopithecus. | | | Recent work on the organ of balance in the inner ear has confirmed that if Australopithecines were bipedal, it was not in the human sense, because the semi-circular canal dimensions of Australopithecus resemble those of living great apes, not Homo. |
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| | Australopithecus anamensis |
| | Only Australopithecus africanus and Australopithecus africanus are thought to have contributed to the hominid lineage; the others are viewed as evolutionary dead-ends. | | | This species more closely resembles humans from the neck up, but it is more ape-like than A. | | | This is under debate, however, since it is the species Australopithecus africanus which more closely resembles our genus in certain characteristics. |
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| | Australopithecus afarensis Skull |
| | Australopithecus afarensis Skull Australopithecus afarensis lived between 4 million and 3.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. |
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| | Final_review |
| | The species Australopithecus garhi has been found in | | | The species Australopithecus garhi has been found in deposits dating ____ million years ago. | | | Which model is supported by evidence from mitochondrial DNA? |
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| | The Bone Clones Catalog of Fossil Hominids |
| | Australopithecus afarensis Skull BH-001 Australopithecus afarensis ----3.6 and 2.9 MYA. | | | Australopithecus boisei Skull KNM OH5 Zinjanthropus With Jaw | | | Discovered by Donald Johanson in 1974 in Ethiopia Lucy, at 3.2 million years, has been considered the first human... |
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| | Australopithecus anamensis |
| | Although distinct from Australopithecus afarensis, its discoveres claim that Australopithecus anamensis resembles the Laetoli fossils more than those found in Hadar. | | | The tibia implies that anamensis was larger than ramidus and afarensis, with an estimated weight of 46 to 55 kilograms; its humanlike anatomy implies that anamensis was bipedal in posture and locomotion. | | | It was named Australopithecus anamensis from "anam" meaning "lake" in the local Turkana language. |
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| | Multiple Choice Quiz |
| | There are no significant ways in which Australopithecus afarensis differs from later hominids. | | | It was responsible for making the footprints found at Laetoli. | | | Australopithecus afarensis was the first hominid to migrate out of Africa. |
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| | Australopithecus boisei |
| | Australopithecus boisei has a relatively level face and possesses an extremely large jaw which coincides with their wide teeth. | | | The Australopithecus boisei's skull is similar to that of the Australopithecus robustus, in which they both have a distinct ridge on the top of their skulls. | | | Australopithecus boisei inhabited eastern Africa approximately 2.5 - 1.2 million years ago. |
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| | Australopithicus |
| | Australopithecus -- Donald Johanson in his book "Lucy" refers to the "australopithecine mess" - and it definitely is that. | | | Perhaps no one has studied the australopithecenes more than Sir Solly Zuckerman who wrote: "Evolution as a Process" in 1954: "There is indeed no question which the australopithecine skull resembles when placed side by side with specimens of humans and living ape skulls. | | | The very word Australopithecus means "southern ape" because the first fossils were found in South Africa. |
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| | Practice Quiz for Discovery of Early Hominids |
| | robustus differed from Australopithecus africanus in that the former: | | | In the early 1970's, Mary Leakey and Tim White found bones of what were likely Australopithecus afarensis dating in the range 3.7-3.5 million years ago at a site in Northern Tanzania named Laetoli. | | | In 1995, Meave Leakey found a new, very early australopithecine species at Lake Turkana, Kenya which she named Australopithecus anamensis. |
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| | Buffalo Museum of Science - Australopithecus |
| | There is also a conservative assumption that body hair had not yet been reduced to the human condition. | | | The phylogenetic status of Australopithecus is problematic as it include three species classified under the genus Paranthropus which may stand out as a distinct lineage, rendering Australopithecus polyphyletic. | | | There is also considerable uncertaintly over the number and varacity of species involved. |
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| | Human Ancestors Hall: Austalopithecus africanus |
| | This species was the first of the australopiths to be described; Raymond Dart named the genus and species in 1925 after his discovery of the famous Taung child. | | | The Transvaal region of South Africa was the home to the species Australopithecus africanus, which lived 3.3 to 2.5 million years ago. |
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| | Relating Chimpanzee Diets to Potential Australopithecus Diets |
| | Assuming that Australopithecus evolved from a frugivorous ape like a chimpanzee, what would have been the nutritional consequences of consuming roots as a fallback food instead of pith? | | | Underground storage organs are also more common in woodland areas, the habitat Australopithecus were living in, as opposed to rain forest, were chimpanzees live (Hatley and Kappelman, 1980). | | | Hatley and Kappelman (1980) describe how Australopithecus may have added underground storage organs (roots, tubers, rhizomes, etc) to their diet, a food source underexploited by apes, past and present. |
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| | Australopithecus Robustus |
| | First appearing about 1.8 million years ago and disappearing around 1 million years ago, Australopithecus Robustus lived in eastern Africa. | | | The first remains were found in the caves of South Africa. |
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| | Strange Science: Timeline |
| | He classifies it as Australopithecus africanus and concludes that it's the missing link between humans and apes. | | | 1974-Donald Johanson and his team discover a female fossil hominid (to be later named Australopithecus afarensis) and call her Lucy. | | | Several months later, Z. Zhou and F. Zhang publish a description of a Cretaceous bird embryo, the first found with feathers. |
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| | Australopithecus aethiopicus Skull |
| | Australopithecus aethiopicus, widely thought to be the ancestor of A. |
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| | Australopithecus afarensis |
| | "Cranial morphology of Australopithecus afarensis: a comparative study based on composite reconstruction of the adult skull." In American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. | | | "The first skull and other new discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia." In Nature, vol. | | | McHenry, H. "Behavioral ecological implications of early hominid body size." In Journal of Human Evolution, vol. |
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| | Australopithecus africanus |
| | Perhaps the most compelling evidence I have viewed is the dental traits chart on page 277 of Donald Johanson's book "Lucy: The Beginnings of Human Kind." It clearly shows that while the molars of Homo remain small like Australopithecus afarensis, the Australopithecine molars get larger and larger with each species beginning with A. africanus. | | | Others say that it belongs on the defunct Australopithecine line. | | | I invite you to go look this up and decide for yourself where this species belongs on the hominid family tree. |
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