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.
Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...
2024年1月3日 · Au. africanus is currently the oldest known early human from southern Africa. Where did it come from? Was it a descendent of Au. afarensis from Eastern Africa? Is Au. africanus part of the lineage that led to our own species, Homo sapiens?
Australopithecus africanus - The Australian Museum
Australopithecus africanus was once considered to be a direct ancestor of modern humans but new finds have challenged this position. Many scientists now believe this species represents a side branch in our evolutionary family tree but there …
Human Ancestor, African Species, Fossils - Britannica
2024年11月18日 · 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.”
15. Australopithecus africanus – The History of Our Tribe: Hominini
Australopithecus africanus was the first fossil hominin discovered in Africa. In 1924, Raymond Dart (see his biographical sketch this chapter) identified the face, mandible, and endocast as being that of a juvenile bipedal ape (see Figure 15.1).
STS 5 | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
STS 5, a nearly complete adult Australopithecus africanus, was an important fossil find because skeptics had previously argued that the Taung Child was actually a baby chimpanzee that would have gained its ape-like features when it got older.
Australopithecus africanus | fossil primate | Britannica
Australopithecus africanus, which lived approximately two to three million years ago, had a fully modern foot and probably strode. … of later hominins such as A. africanus (3.3–2.4 mya) and Paranthropus robustus (1.8–1.5 mya) of South Africa do …
Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus | Nature
2023年5月3日 · Almost one hundred years later, Africa is recognized as the cradle of humanity, where the entire evolutionary history of our lineage prior to two million years ago took place—after the Homo–Pan...
Mrs. Ples - Wikipedia
Mrs. Ples is the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus ever found in South Africa.
Australopithecus africanus - stsmith.faculty.anth.ucsb.edu
This feature has lead paleoanthropologists to infer that A. africanus was adapted to a very general diet, rather than a highly specialized one. Furthermore, A. africanus is believed to be fully bipedal based on its skeletal morphology.