Australopithecus africanus - Wikipedia
Australopithecus africanus is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa. [1] The species has been recovered from Taung, Sterkfontein, Makapansgat, and Gladysvale.
Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...
2024年1月3日 · Often found alongside animal bones, Australopithecus africanus was once considered a “killer ape.” Now we know they were sometimes eaten by predators. Living together in groups helped these early humans protect themselves. Want to find out how this fossil got the nickname 'Mrs. Ples'?
Human Ancestor, African Species, Fossils - Britannica
2024年11月18日 · In 1925 South African anthropologist Raymond Dart coined the genus name Australopithecus to identify a child’s skull recovered from mining operations at Taung in South Africa. He called it Australopithecus africanus, meaning “southern ape of Africa.”
Australopithecus africanus - The Australian Museum
The now-famous Taung Child skull had a mixture of human-like and ape-like features. Dart believed it to be an early ancestor of humans and in 1925 he gave his ‘man-ape’ a new species name, Australopithecus africanus .
Proconsul africanus - Wikipedia
Proconsul africanus was an ape which lived from about 23 to 14 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. It was a fruit eater and its brain was larger than that of a monkey, although probably not as large as that of a modern ape.
15. Australopithecus africanus – The History of Our Tribe
Australopithecus africanus was the first fossil hominin discovered in Africa. In 1924, Raymond Dart (see his biographical sketch this chapter) identified the face, mandible, and endocast as being that of a juvenile bipedal ape (see Figure 15.1).
Taung Child - Wikipedia
Only forty days after he first saw the fossil, Dart completed a paper that named the species of Australopithecus africanus, the "southern ape from Africa", and described it as "an extinct race of apes intermediate between living anthropoids and man". [9] The paper appeared in the 7 February 1925 issue of the journal Nature. [10]
STS 5 | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
STS 5, a nearly complete adult Australopithecus africanus, was an important fossil find because skeptics had previously argued that the Taung Child was actually a baby chimpanzee that would have gained its ape-like features when it got older.
Australopithecus africanus | fossil primate | Britannica
In 1925 South African anthropologist Raymond Dart coined the genus name Australopithecus to identify a child’s skull recovered from mining operations at Taung in South Africa. He called it Australopithecus africanus, meaning “southern ape of Africa.” From then until 1960 almost all.
Australopithecus africanus The Man-Ape of South Africa | Nature
Important stratigraphical evidence has been forthcoming recently from this district concerning the succession of stone ages in South Africa (Neville Jones, Jour. Roy. Anthrop. Inst., 1920), and the...