Au. [13] Many scientists also doubt the suggestion of bipedalism, and argue that even if Australopithecus really did walk on two legs, it did not walk in the same way as a human. Paranthropus robustus is a species of robust australopithecine from the Early and possibly Middle Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, about 2 to 1 or 0.6 million years ago.It has been identified in Kromdraai, Swartkrans, Sterkfontein, Gondolin, Cooper's, and Drimolen Caves. A. afarensis b. Aegyptopithecus c. Homo habilis d. A. africanus e. Ardipithecus. 9 (2007) they may have been more arboreal than Au. D.would have reached an adult height of around 6 feet. According to McHenry and Berger (1998) and Green et al. The new Au. _____ may have been contemporaneous with australopiths but had a significantly larger brain. Until about 30,000 years ago, they overlapped with H. neanderthalensis (left) in Europe and in the Levant, and they may have been contemporaneous with the H. erectus (right) then living in Java. asked Apr 21, 2017 in Anthropology & Archaeology by polishaddict. For many years it has been the consensus among evolutionists that the australopithecines (various species within the genus Australopithecus) were intermediate between Man and the apes, indicating that this creature was on the direct evolutionary line between Man and the hypothetical common ancestor of apes and Man (see Evolution: The Fossils Say No!, D. T. Gish, pp. It may be a direct ancestor of modern humans, representing an evolutionary link between the Australopithecus and Homo, or it may belong on a side-branch. sediba findings, unearthed in Malapa, South Africa, make it clear that this ancient relative displayed both primitive characteristics as well as more modern, human-like … Brain. africanus were less sexually dimorphic than Au. Australopithecus anamensis may have been the earliest australopithecine species. C.is a young female. They lived about 4.2-3.9 million years ago in East Africa. B.is estimated to have been about 65 years old at death. A.is sometimes used to refer to African Homo erectus specimens. Yet, this can be questioned, as finds of Australopithecus foot bones indicate that the Laetoli footprints may not have been made by Australopithecus. Key physical features. E.C & D only. The various species lived 4.4 million to 1.4 million years ago, during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. Group of answer choices. Unfortunately, little is known about them due to the scarcity of their fossils and the fact that the ones that have been found are highly fragmentary. a. 4.The term Homo ergaster. [14] [15] [16] In 1925 South African anthropologist Raymond Dart coined the genus name Australopithecus to identify a child’s skull recovered from mining operations at Taung in South Africa.He called it Australopithecus africanus, meaning “southern ape of Africa.” From then until 1960 almost all that was known about australopiths came from limestone caves in South Africa. afarensis. afarensis , with males averaging 4′6″ (138 cm) tall and 90 lb (41 kg) and females at 3′9″ (115 cm) and 67 lb (29 kg). 72-112). physical-and-biological-anthropology size about 450 cc, similar to other australopithecines ... contemporaneous site Gona. Indeed, the expanded brain size, human-like wrist and hand anatomy [97,98], dietary eclecticism and potential tool-making capabilities of ‘generalized’ australopiths root the Homo lineage in ancient hominin adaptive trends, suggesting that the ‘transition’ from Australopithecus to Homo may not have been that much of a transition at all. Australopithecus africanus. Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands, and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to appear on Earth. B.is sometimes used to refer to Asian Homo erectus specimens. Australopithecus, group of extinct primates closely related to modern humans and known from fossils from eastern, north-central, and southern Africa. 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