australopith

aus·tra·lo·pith

 (ô′strə-lə-pĭth′)
n.
Any of several extinct humanlike primates of the genus Australopithecus and closely related genera such as Ardipithecus and Paranthropus.
[From New Latin Austrālopithēcus, genus name.]
aus′tra·lo·pith′ adj.
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Lee-Thorp, "Enamel diagenesis at South African Australopith sites: implications for paleoecological reconstruction with trace elements," Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol.
High-Precision In Situ [sup.87]Sr/[sup.86]Sr Analyses through Microsampling on Solid Samples: Applications to Earth and Life Sciences
They discovered australopith faces and jaws were strongest in the areas most likely to receive a punch.
ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES... FOR CENTURIES
Churchill et al., "Australopithecus sediba: a new species of homo-like australopith from South Africa," Science, vol.
A brief overview of the last 10 years of major late Pleistocene discoveries in the old world: Homo floresiensis, Neanderthal, and Denisovan
Berger L R, De Ruiter D J, Churchill S E, Schmid P, Carlson K J, Dirks P H G M, Kibii J M, 2010, "Australopithecus sediba: a new species of Homo-like Australopith from South Africa" Science 328 195-204
Geologic life: prehistory, climate, futures in the anthropocene
The rise of the hominids as an adaptive shift in fallback foods: Plant underground storage organs (USOs) and australopith origins.
Plantas aromaticas con organos subterraneos de importancia cultural en la Patagonia argentina: una aproximacion a sus usos desde la etnobotanica, la percepcion sensorial y la anatomia
Smaller-jawed australopith ecines turn up mainly in conjunction with the monkeys and other forest animals, Behrensmeyer notes.
Boisei's adaptable ways
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.
Violence could have contributed to evolution of faces of human ancestors
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.
Fossils from 'Cradle of Humankind' may be new pre-human species
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.
Breastfeeding practice by earliest ancestors explained
The similarities to Australopithecus are especially intriguing when one ponders for a moment on just who the australopiths actually were.
To doubters: The evidence needed to declare a new human species from a Philippines site
EVIDENCE FOR THE ENDEMIC SPECIATION OF ROBUST AUSTRALOPITHS AT STERKFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA.
ANTHROPOLOGY PAPER ABSTRACTS
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.
Early Human Ancestors Used Hands Like We Do

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