Australopithecus - Wikipedia The fossil record seems to indicate that Australopithecus is ancestral to Homo and modern humans It was once assumed that large brain size had been a precursor to bipedalism, but the discovery of Australopithecus with a small brain but developed bipedality upset this theory
Australopithecus | Characteristics Facts | Britannica Australopithecus, group of extinct primates closely related to modern humans and known from fossils from eastern, north-central, and southern Africa The various species lived 4 4 million to 1 4 million years ago, during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs
Australopithecus afarensis - The Smithsonians Human Origins Program 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 as our own species has been around
Australopithecus afarensis, Lucys species | Natural History Museum Au afarensis belongs to the genus Australopithecus, a group of small-bodied and small-brained early hominin species (human relatives) that were capable of upright walking but not well adapted for travelling long distances on the ground
The Genus Australopithecus - Columbia University About 4 4 millions years ago, a different type of primate emerged The first bipedal primates are classified by Paleontologists as hominids, and these first hominids had not yet developed the large brain, teeth structure, and skeletal features identified as Homo
Australopithecus Australopithecus is a genus of hominins that existed between approximately 4 2 and 1 2 million years ago [1] The name, which translates to ‘southern ape’, is derived from the initial discovery of these early human relatives in southern Africa
11. Australopithecus afarensis – The History of Our Tribe: Hominini Australopithecus afarensis, or the “southern ape from Afar,” is a well-known species due to the famous “Lucy” specimen It has been extensively studied by numerous famous paleoanthropologists As mentioned, it is categorized as a gracile form of australopith
Australopithecus: An Overview of Early Human Ancestors Australopithecus is a genus of early hominids that lived from 4 4 million to 1 4 million years ago during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs Known from numerous fossil finds in Africa, they were bipedal and dentally similar to humans but had brain sizes not much larger than modern apes
Australopithecus - Human Ancestor, African Species, Fossils | Britannica Australopithecus - Human Ancestor, African Species, Fossils: 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