What is "australopithecines"

Usage examples of "australopithecines".

What seems certain is that about five million years ago, there was an abundance of apelike animals, the gracile Australopithecines, who walked on two feet and had brain volumes of about 500 cubic centimeters, some 100 cc more than the brain of a modern chimpanzee.

By three million years ago, there was a variety of bipedal fellows with a wide range of cranial volumes, some considerably larger than the East African gracile Australopithecines of a few million years earlier.

The gracile Australopithecines, judging again from their teeth, probably ate meat as well as vegetables.

He was larger, both in body and in brain weight, than either of the Australopithecines, and had a ratio of brain to body weight about the same as that of the gracile Australopithecines.

The gracile Australopithecines were also contemporaries of Homo habilis but much more ancient.

There is no way to explain the discontinuous appearance of stone tools unless the Australopithecines had educational institutions.

We see from the table that the ratio of body to brain weight is, within the variance of measurement, roughly the same for the gracile Australopithecines, Homo habilis, Homo erectus and modern humans.

They did not make it impossible for the collateral descendants of their australopithecines to learn that the Heechee had visited their area.

Heechee, thinking that the australopithecines they discovered when they first visited the Earth would ultimately evolve a technological civilizatron, decided to preserve a colony of them in a sort of zoo.

He visited Earth and met the australopithecines, he helped chart gas clouds and quasars, he ferried crews to outposts and construction projects.

The prints had been made when two australopithecines had walked through muddy ash following a volcanic eruption.

They are assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates.

For over three million years, Lucy and her fellow australopithecines scarcely changed at all.

What is stranger still is that we now know that for about a million years they lived alongside other early hominids who did use tools, yet the australopithecines never took advantage of this useful technology that was all around them.

Or the future scientists could be viewing, oh, australopithecines or trilobites or the big asteroid crash.