| 单词 | australopithecine |
| 例句 | With a cranial capacity of six hundred cubic centimeters, Homo habilis had less than half our brain size, but twice that of the more advanced australopithecines. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z Before the australopithecines eventually vanished, new hominids appeared in East Africa around 2.5 million years ago. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the course of this transition, body proportions changed: whereas australopithecines were short and stocky, Homo had a taller, slimmer build with more surface area. Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z In the hominin fossil record, there’s a longstanding debate over what drove the increase in size of chewing anatomy over time, especially in the australopithecines and members of the genus Paranthropus. Unexpected gorilla snacking behaviors make scientists question what we know about early humans 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Still, not everyone is convinced it clarifies the relations of the australopithecines, a genus of upright apes that lived between 4.2 million and 2 million years ago throughout eastern and southern Africa. Stunning ancient skull shakes up human family tree 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z And australopithecine fossils have never been found outside Africa—the oldest known members of the human family found beyond the mother continent all belong to Homo. Philippine Fossils Add Surprising New Species to Human Family Tree 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Humans and other creatures that walk upright, such as australopithecines, are called hominids. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever the species, this remarkably complete skeleton includes so many body parts that future study is sure to reveal a lot about australopithecines, others say. Identity of Little Foot fossil stirs controversy 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z They may also have served as a crucial food source for our own australopithecine ancestors. What Termites Can Teach Us 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Our distant ancestors, such as the famous fossil Lucy and other australopithecines, matured quickly and died young like chimps. Neandertals, like humans, may have had long childhoods 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Alternatively, H. floresiensis inherited its small proportions and other out-of-time features from a more primitive ancestor—an australopithecine of some sort—that somehow managed to disperse from Africa into Asia. Philippine Fossils Add Surprising New Species to Human Family Tree 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Lucy and the hominids who left their footprints in East Africa were species of australopithecines. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z How do we explain a confluence of very "apelike" features—more primitive than those found in australopithecines of Lucy fame—and much more modern elements? Seven Major Archaeological Discoveries of 2015 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The human lineage, the genus Homo, and its close relatives, including australopithecines such as the famed Lucy, are together referred to as hominins. Extinct Tree-Climbing Human Walked with a Swagger 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Raymond Dart, originator of the “killer ape” theory of human evolution, holds the skull of the Taung Child, the first australopithecine ever discovered. 12 Theories of How We Became Human, and Why They’re All Wrong 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Either they were made by australopithecines like Lucy—or scientists simply haven’t yet found the early form of Homo that made them. Human Evolution 101 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Broom later found a nearly complete pelvis there, confirming that australopithecines were upright walkers. Where Is the Birthplace of Humankind? South Africa and East Africa Both Lay Claims 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The teeth, meanwhile, are small like those of modern humans, yet the third molar is larger than the other molars—a pattern associated with australopithecines. Mysterious New Human Species Emerges from Heap of Fossils 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z However, its fingers were longer and more curved than most australopithecines—indeed, more curved than those of nearly any other species of early hominin. Extinct Tree-Climbing Human Walked with a Swagger 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z One of the skulls looks more like it comes from an australopithecine, he says, as do certain features of the femurs. Crowdsourcing digs up an early human species 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The earliest undisputed members of our lineage to regularly walk upright were the australopithecines, of which the most famous is Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis. Human Evolution 101 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z His quest finally bore fruit in 1959, when he and his wife, Mary, discovered an australopithecine skull in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. Where Is the Birthplace of Humankind? South Africa and East Africa Both Lay Claims 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Geologists said the individuals lived 1.78 million to 1.95 million years ago, when australopithecines and early species of Homo were contemporaries. Homo Naledi, New Species in Human Lineage, Is Found in South African Cave 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Intriguingly, H. naledi’s pelvis was more like that of australopithecines such as Lucy, flaring outward more than that of modern humans. Extinct Tree-Climbing Human Walked with a Swagger 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z On the far side of that divide are the apelike australopithecines, epitomized by Australopithecus afarensis and its most famous representative, Lucy, a skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. This Face Changes the Human Story. But How? 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Cooked food is easier to digest, spurring the growth of large brains in our australopithecine ancestors, Harvard's Richard Wrangham proposed about a decade ago. Chimps have mental skills to cook: study 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Some new fossils were still emerging from the Cradle of Humankind, including a spectacular australopithecine skeleton dubbed Little Foot, more complete than any ever found, Lucy included. Where Is the Birthplace of Humankind? South Africa and East Africa Both Lay Claims 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Instead, she was likely accompanied by different australopithecines occupying a variety of ecological niches. New human ancestor was Lucy’s cousin and neighbor 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z He keeps rediscovering that we’re australopithecines, and keeps hoping to transform us into Homo habilis: man the tool user, able man. Who Funds the Future? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But others were just as astonishingly primitive—in some cases, even more apelike than the australopithecines. This Face Changes the Human Story. But How? 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The most likely explanation, she concluded, was that the artifacts were made either by australopithecines similar to Lucy or by Kenyanthropus. World’s oldest stone tools discovered in Kenya 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z A year later, the Leakeys found fossils of a more advanced species, seemingly a bridge from the australopithecines to us. Where Is the Birthplace of Humankind? South Africa and East Africa Both Lay Claims 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z “This implies an evolutionary connection between South Africa and East Africa prior to the age of Little Foot, and with enough time for the australopithecine species to diverge.” Human Ancestor ‘Little Foot’ Lived 3.7 Million Years Ago 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Regardless of the precise cause, Tocheri says: “It provides further support for the hypothesis that australopithecines … actually used their hands in more humanlike ways.” How human ancestors got a grip 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “What we really need are more specimens and some trail of fossils that shows us how LB1 got to Flores” while retaining characteristics of australopithecines for more than a million years, Schoenemann observes. Human or Hobbit? 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, Yeti sightings create the impression of a hominid not all that different from the paranthropines, the more robust of the extinct, African australopithecines. Tales from the Cryptozoologicon: the Yeti 2013-08-04T16:45:03.477Z Even more astonishing, the only known members of the human family as small as the little Floresian were australopithecines—Lucy and her kind, who lived some three million years ago. Co-discoverer of Homo sapiens Little Hobbit Cousin Leaves Large Scientific Legacy 2013-07-26T22:45:03.743Z These bipeds were small-brained, and they weren’t busy becoming human, but being australopithecines. The Denisova Genome and Guys Banging Rocks 2012-08-30T19:15:00.440Z As a result, the australopithecine wedging angles reported are half the correct values. Corrigendum: Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins 2012-07-04T17:21:42.937Z As more australopithecine fossils were discovered, protected in these subterranean lairs, it was revealed that they were often associated with the discarded remains of partially consumed mammals. The Better Bonobos of Our Nature 2012-06-19T23:15:04.947Z With so few specimens from the transition period, and most of them being scraps, identifying those features that first distinguished from its australopithecine forebears—those traits that made us truly human—has proved challenging. First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? 2012-03-20T15:15:04.437Z Perhaps H. floresiensis descended not from H. erectus but from an earlier, more primitive species, such as H. habilis, which in many ways more closely resembles australopithecines than members of our own genus. Co-discoverer of Homo sapiens Little Hobbit Cousin Leaves Large Scientific Legacy 2013-07-26T22:45:03.743Z Now the most human-like australopithecine found to date is clarifying things—and staking a claim to be the species from which early humans evolved. Human evolution: You look familiar 2011-09-08T07:32:47Z This mixture of apelike and humanlike features shows that the new species was transitional between the australopithecines and humans, the researchers said at a press conference Wednesday. New Fossils May Redraw Human Family Tree 2011-09-08T14:11:14Z Choreographed by Dart’s student Phillip Tobias, the scene depicts a ragged australopithecine who raises a discarded femur against his brother and employs it to commit the world’s first murder. The Better Bonobos of Our Nature 2012-06-19T23:15:04.947Z Shifting climate favored the spread of open grasslands, and the early australopithecines gave rise to new lineages. First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? 2012-03-20T15:15:04.437Z She plans to see if the pattern holds in australopithecines in other parts of Africa to see if this was the usual way australopithecines organized their clans. Ancient Female Ancestors Roamed Far and Wide for Mates 2011-06-01T18:01:00Z They found that its size was on a par with other australopithecines, but its shape was more like that of a human brain. Human evolution: You look familiar 2011-09-08T07:32:47Z The sediba fossils are important as evidence of this experimentation, not because they are necessarily the ancestors of the human lineage that eventually evolved from the upright walking australopithecine apes. New Fossils May Redraw Human Family Tree 2011-09-08T14:11:14Z “It’s really nice to see there is biological continuity from chimpanzees to australopithecines,” said Joan B. Silk, an expert on primate social behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles. Teeth of Human Ancestors Hold Clues to Their Family Life 2011-06-01T17:54:51Z Conventional wisdom holds that the broad, flat pelvis of australopithecines evolved into the bowl-shaped pelvis seen in the bigger-brained to allow delivery of babies with larger heads. First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? 2012-03-20T15:15:04.437Z Yet it also shares a number of skull traits in common with Homo—more, in fact, than any other australopithecine does. Early human fossils from South Africa could upend longheld view of human evolution 2011-04-18T20:45:00.483Z An article published in Nature this year reported the find of 3.4 million year-oldfossil bones scarred by cutting tools, pushing the date back further still to australopithecines. Evolution: The first supper 2011-01-04T21:22:58.233Z Rather, the fossils show the richness of evolutionary experimentation within the australopithecine group. New Fossils May Redraw Human Family Tree 2011-09-08T14:11:14Z The evidence emerged from study of the fossil teeth of 19 australopithecines, the still apelike ancestors of the human lineage. Teeth of Human Ancestors Hold Clues to Their Family Life 2011-06-01T17:54:51Z Geologists estimated that the individuals lived 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, probably closer to the older date, a period when australopithecines and early species of Homo were contemporaries. New Hominid Species, Au. Sediba, Discovered in South Africa 2010-04-08T15:14:00Z The researchers were measuring different versions, or isotopes, of strontium to see if the australopithecines traveled far from home in search of food. Teeth of Human Ancestors Hold Clues to Their Family Life 2011-06-01T17:54:51Z In australopithecines, the absorption of strontium continued until the teeth were completed around age 8. Teeth of Human Ancestors Hold Clues to Their Family Life 2011-06-01T17:54:51Z Small australopithecines, with bodies and brains not much bigger than those of modern chimpanzees, were widespread from 3.8 million to 3 million years ago, most famously Australopithecus afarensis like Lucy. New Hominid Species, Au. Sediba, Discovered in South Africa 2010-04-08T15:14:00Z The australopithecine fossils are few and precious, and researchers are reluctant to damage them in any way. Teeth of Human Ancestors Hold Clues to Their Family Life 2011-06-01T17:54:51Z |
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