Today, palaeoanthropologists recognize six hominin genera that contain over a dozen species. One of the best documen-ted of these is Australopithecus, which contains several species— …

Australopithecus sediba represents the first widely accepted South African australopith species named since 1938. With an age estimate of 1.977±0.0015 Ma, Mal.

Australopithecus is another hominid genus that evolved prior to Homo. In fact, genus Homo seems to have evolved from genus ”Australopithecus”. The hominid family tree is grouped by …

Australopithecus (Paranthropus) aethiopicus Location: West Lake Turkana (East Africa) Age: 2.5 MYA Habitat: Open grasslands

Stw 431 is a partial skeleton of Australopithecus afri-canus. This skeleton found in 1987 includes large portions of the right ilium, a fragment of the left ilium and a partial sacrum.

earlier australopithecines remain unresolved. Here we report on two partial . keletons with an age of 1.95 to 1.78 million years. The fossils were encased in cave deposits . t the Malapa site in …

Paleoecological Evidence and Current Interpretations of Australopithecus Sites The following section reviews various Australopithecus taxa (Table 4.1) and the information that is known …