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4 de jul. de 2024 · The discovery of Au. bahrelghazali extends the geographic range of Australopithecus some 2,500 km (1,500 miles) west of Africa’s Great Rift Valley (see East African Rift System). A curious cranium discovered in 1997 at Bouri in the Afar region of Ethiopia was placed in the species Au. garhi (2.5 mya).
- Relationship to Homo
The recovery of fossils assigned to A. aethiopicus and the...
- Relationship to Homo
8 de jul. de 2024 · The Laetoli footprints were most likely made by Australopithecus afarensis, an early human whose fossils were found in the same sediment layer. The entire footprint trail is almost 27 m (88 ft) long and includes impressions of about 70 early human footprints.
4 de jul. de 2024 · The recovery of fossils assigned to A. aethiopicus and the presence of anatomical features reminiscent of its ancestor A. afarensis, as well as derived features typical of A. boisei, are persuasive confirmation for a third lineage, the robusts, at least in eastern Africa.
15 de jul. de 2024 · Spatial beta diversity analyses of mammalian fossil records from the East African Rift System ... its primarily north–south trending rift valley ... Z. Australopithecus afarensis ...
4 de jul. de 2024 · Australopithecus, group of extinct primates closely related to modern humans and known from fossils from eastern, north-central, and southern Africa. The various species lived 4.4 million to 1.4 million years ago, during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
1 de jul. de 2024 · Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin – a group that includes humans and our fossil relatives. Australopithecus afarensis lived from 3.8 million years ago to 2.9 million years ago, in the region that is now Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
8 de jul. de 2024 · It preserves over 400 human footprints in an ancient volcanic mudflow from nearby Oldoinyo L’engai, a still-active volcano in the East African Rift, which were hardened when the wet ash dried almost like concrete.
