Australopithecus - Wikipedia The fossil record seems to indicate that Australopithecus is ancestral to Homo and modern humans It was once assumed that large brain size had been a precursor to bipedalism, but the discovery of Australopithecus with a small brain but developed bipedality upset this theory
Australopithecus | Characteristics Facts | Britannica 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
Australopithecus afarensis | The Smithsonian Institutions Human . . . Found between 3 85 and 2 95 million years ago in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), this species survived for more than 900,000 years, which is about three times as long as our own species has been around
Australopithecus: origin, extinction and characteristics Australopithecus, often referred to as australopithecines, is the name given to an extinct genus of hominid primates Up to seven distinct species within this genus are known to have lived in prehistoric Africa around 4 million years ago
Australopithecus afarensis, Lucys species - Natural History Museum Au afarensis belongs to the genus Australopithecus, a group of small-bodied and small-brained early hominin species (human relatives) that were capable of upright walking but not well adapted for travelling long distances on the ground
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