Australopithecus afarensis | The Smithsonian Institution's ...
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 …
Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia
The skull KNM-ER 1470 (now H. rudolfensis) was at first dated to 2.9 million years ago, which cast doubt on the ancestral position of both A. afarensis or A. africanus, but it has been re …
Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy's species | Natural History ...
Australopithecus afarensis skulls show the species had a brain the size of a chimpanzee's, a projecting face and powerful jaw muscles, used for chewing hard or tough plant material.
Australopithecus afarensis - The Australian Museum
‘Lucy’ Australopithecus afarensis skull Discovered: 1974 by Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia. Age: 3.2 million years old This relatively complete female skeleton is the most famous …
Australopithecus | Characteristics & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月18日 · Ar. ramidus, which was discovered in the middle Awash valley in 1992 at a site named Aramis, is known from a crushed and distorted partial skeleton. The skull is apelike …
Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus | Nature
2023年5月3日 · The skull of Australopithecus afarensis (Oxford University Press, 2004). A monumental monograph that described and analysed the skull of Australopithecus afarensis …
Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia
Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 …