Examples of using Australopithecus in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Australopithecus had a tiny little pea brain.
Stone tool implements also found along with Australopithecus garhi, dated to a slightly earlier period.
The researchers found the newfound fossils showed thicker lower jaws andthicker tooth enamel than Australopithecus afarensis.
These two species were: Australopithecus robustus and Australopithecus africanus.
Blacki was thought to be closely related to early hominins,particularly Australopithecus, on the basis of molar evidence;
The Laetoli footprints are most likely Australopithecus afarensis, an early human whose fossils were found in the same sediment layer.
Make crucial discoveries and hone physical abilities that will be passed down tofuture generations such as Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus.
She found high levels of carbon-13 in the bones of Australopithecus bahrelghazali, which lived on savannahs near Lake Chad in Africa.
So she belongs to our family tree, but within that, of course, you do detailed analysis, and we know now that she belongs to the Lucy species,known as Australopithecus afarensis.
She found high levels of carbon-13 in the bones of Australopithecus bahrelghazali, which lived on savannahs near Lake Chad in Africa.
Australopithecus species played a significant part in human evolution, the genus Homo being derived from Australopithecus at some time after three million years ago.
It was about 2.6 million years ago that meat firstbecame a significant part of the pre-human diet, and if Australopithecus had had a forehead to slap it would surely have done so.
Later on, the several species of Australopithecus that lived between 4 and 3 million years ago in woodlands, riverine forests, and on seasonal floodplains of Africa weren't hooked on meat, either.
Now the topic turns, somehow, to one of her focuses at Yale, anthropology,and Williams is talking to me about“Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis” and the freaky sex life of bonobos.
Lucy is the nickname for an older species of hominin known as Australopithecus afarensis, which was discovered at the site of Hadar, Ethiopia, about 45 kilometers southwest of the new BD 1 site.
In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was spending a day with his archaeologist dad at a dig near Johannesburg, South Africa, when he discovered what were later identified as theremains of one of mankind's ancient relatives, Australopithecus sediba.
During that time, a number of australopithecine species emerged,including Australopithecus afarensis, A. africanus, A. anamensis, A. bahrelghazali, A. deyiremeda(proposed), A. garhi, and A. sediba.
Australopithecus afarensis lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago and is considered one of the earliest hominins- those species that developed and comprised the lineage of Homo's closest relatives after the split from the line of the chimpanzees.
Somewhere around 4 million years ago(although some researchers would argue as early as 7 million years ago), early transitional species,such as Australopithecus, developed bipedalism, meaning that they stood and moved on two legs, rather than four.
This fossil was originally described as a species of Australopithecus, but White and his colleagues later published a note in the same journal renaming the fossil under a new genus, Ardipithecus.
Australopithecus deyiremeda is a proposed species of early hominin among those who lived about 3.5- 3.3 million years ago in northern Ethiopia, around the same time and place as several discovered specimens of Australopithecus afarensis, including the well-known"Lucy".
In 1995, Meave Leakey and her associates,taking note of differences between Australopithecus afarensis and the new finds, assigned them to a new species, A. anamensis, deriving its name from the Turkana word anam, meaning"lake".
After comparing the CT scan of the newfound fossil to several other species that have human-like fingers, including gorillas, Old World monkeys, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus sediba and Neanderthals, the researchers determined it was human- likely the middle part of a human's middle finger.
Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million-year-old, apelike fossil from South Africa, is the direct ancestor of Homo, the genus to which modern-day humans belong.
We're seeing a very different hominid at this stage," Harris said, pointing to both an increase in size andchange in stride during the relatively short time between Australopithecus(the first in this genus lived about 4 million years ago and the last died out between 3 million and 2 million years ago) and Homo erectus.
However, in their paper the authors observe that at the time when Australopithecus bahrelghazali roamed, the area would have had reeds and sedges growing around a network of shallow lakes, with floodplains and wooded grasslands beyond.
However, the discovery of another species called Kenyanthropus platyops in Kenya in 2001, and of Australopithecus bahrelghazali in Chad, and now Australopithecus deyiremedaI, suggests that there were several species co-existing.
If Orrorin proves to be a direct human ancestor,then australopithecines such as Australopithecus afarensis("Lucy") may be considered a side branch of the hominid family tree: Orrorin is both earlier, by almost 3 million years, and more similar to modern humans than is A. afarensis.