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They discovered
australopith faces and jaws were strongest in the areas most likely to receive a punch.
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The rise of the hominids as an adaptive shift in fallback foods: Plant underground storage organs (USOs) and
australopith origins.
Smaller-jawed
australopith ecines turn up mainly in conjunction with the monkeys and other forest animals, Behrensmeyer notes.
Washington, June 10 ( ANI ): Researchers have claimed that human faces -especially those of our
australopith ancestors - evolved to minimize injury from punches to the face during fights between males.
The fossils included an
australopith's little brain (with some curiously modern features), apelike shoulders, and arms adapted to climbing in trees-attached to a bizarrely modern hand with the precision grip of a toolmaker.
Researchers suggest that this finding underscores the diversity, variability, and flexibility in habitats and adaptive strategies these
australopiths used to obtain food, avoid predators, and raise their offspring.
The similarities to Australopithecus are especially intriguing when one ponders for a moment on just who the
australopiths actually were.
EVIDENCE FOR THE ENDEMIC SPECIATION OF ROBUST
AUSTRALOPITHS AT STERKFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA.
Anthropologists from the University of Kent, working with researchers from University College London, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), have produced the first research findings to support archaeological evidence for stone tool use among fossil
australopiths 3-2 million years ago.