AUSTRALOPITHECUS The first ... He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but human characteristics. Australopithecines were small, with long arms, prominent skulls ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ... "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull, as well as a jaw and large teeth that were well ...

he found a fossilized mold of a brain and a matching child’s skull partially buried in stone. Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in ...

The first example of Australopithecus ... He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but human characteristics. Australopithecines were small, with long arms ...

The Taung and other fossils—more primitive than Eurasian hominids but still possessing human characteristics ... two-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus skull nicknamed Mrs. Ples ...

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of ...

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The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year ... Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus sediba. "Unlike the situation today, where we are the only human species, 2 million ...

THOUGH the brain of the young Australopithecus is about 500 c.c ... and of the beautiful female skull about 415 c.c, it has been suspected that some male brains may have been very much larger.

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ... "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull, as well as a jaw and large teeth that were well ...