Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's …
2024年1月3日 · Compared to Au. afarensis, Au. africanus had a rounder cranium housing a larger brain and smaller teeth, but it also had some ape-like features including relatively long arms and a strongly sloping face that juts out from underneath the braincase with a pronounced jaw.
Australopithecus afarensis | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...
2024年1月3日 · Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human species—paleoanthropologists have uncovered remains from more than 300 individuals! Found between 3.85 and 2.95 million years ago in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), this species survived for more than 900,000 years, which is over four times as long ...
The first bipeds: a comparison of theA. afarensis and A. africanus ...
1986年3月1日 · Although the postcranium of Australopithecus africanus is uniquely different from all extant hominoids, it is nearly identical to A. afarensis. This similarity is surprising because the two species are distinctly different in their dental and cranial anatomy.
Australopithecus africanus - The Australian Museum
compared with the earlier species, Australopithecus afarensis, the skull showed some slightly more human-like features such as a smaller brow ridge and a slightly arched (rather than flat) forehead area.
Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy's species - Natural History …
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early hominins thanks to an extraordinary skeleton known as Lucy. Find out what we've learned about this species and important fossils. How do we know that Lucy and her species walked upright?
Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia
Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not take place until the 1970s.
The Evolutionary History of the Australopiths | Evolution: Education ...
2010年7月27日 · An important difference between A. afarensis and A. africanus is that the forelimbs in the latter species might have been proportionally larger, meaning that the arms of A. africanus may have been more effective at climbing in …
Australopithecus africanus - Wikipedia
Australopithecus africanus is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa. [1] The species has been recovered from Taung, Sterkfontein, Makapansgat, and Gladysvale.
How Australopithecus provided insight into human evolution
2019年10月29日 · In 1925, a Nature paper reported an African fossil of a previously unknown genus called Australopithecus. This finding revolutionized ideas about early human evolution after human ancestors and...
Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus | Nature
2023年5月3日 · The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric...