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	Australopithecus afarensis
		The species A. afarensis is one of the better known australopithecines, with regards to the number of samples attributed to the species.
		afarensis is one of the better known australopithecines, merely with regard to the number of samples attributed to the species.
		The afarensis material is important in that it is the best known early hominid species (although as earlier anamensis and/or ramidus material becomes better known, it will lose much of its focus as the earliest known hominid material for which much is known).
	www.archaeologyinfo.com /australopithecusafarensis.htm (1774 words)

	Australopithecus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Australopithecus, an extinct genus of the hominid family found in Africa between about 4 and 1 million years ago.
		afarensis, dating to at least 3.75 million years ago, may be ancestral to all the other species of this genus, with the exception of A.
		afarensis was relatively small, standing 3.5 to 5 ft (1 to 1.6 m) tall and weighing 45 to 110 lb (20 to 50 kg).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-australo.html (839 words)

	Evolution: Humans: Origins of Humankind
		Australopithecus afarensis had a very low forehead, a face that projected far forward (as viewed in profile), and a very prominent brow ridge.
		afarensis is the earliest species for which we have reliable brain and body size estimates, thanks to a rich fossil record for the species.
		afarensis was about one-third the size of the average modern human brain, or about the same size as a modern ape's brain.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/d.html (304 words)

	Australopithecus afarensis - Leakey ancestors
		Australopithecus afarensis is best known from Hadar in Ethiopia, where over 200 specimens have been recovered.
		The species was first recognised in 1978 and for many years Australopithecus afarensis was believed to be the earliest australopithecine and the earliest biped.
		The species name afarensis was given because the majority of the specimens came from the Afar region in Ethiopia.
	www.inhandmuseum.com /LA/afarensis/AfarFrame.html (1127 words)

	Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.9 to 3 million years ago.
		afarensis are thought to have had, this is thought by many to be reflective of a hightened ability to use the arm above the head in climbing behaviour.
		afarensis skeleton was discovered on November 24, 1974 by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis (1308 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Australopithecus afarensis
		Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago.
		afarensis knee joint was discovered in November 1973 by Donald Johanson as part of a team involving Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
		afarensis skeleton was discovered on November 24, 1974 by Tom Gray in the company of Donald Johanson, as part of a team involving Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis (1289 words)

	Australopithecus afarensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Lucy is a 3.18 million year old female hominid, of the genus Australopithecus, whose skeleton was discovered on November 30, 1974 by Donald Johanson and Tim White in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia.
		A diaroma of Australopithecus afarensis and other human predecessors showing each species in its habitat and demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe it had is in the Hall of Human Biology and Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
		One of the most striking characteristics possessed by Lucy was that she had a small skull, bipedal knee structure, and molars and front teeth of human (rather than great ape) style and relative size, but a small skull and small body.
	australopithecus-afarensis.iqnaut.net (750 words)

	Australopithecus
		Australopithecus afarensis existed from 3.7 to 3.0 million years ago.
		afarensis, and the first to be discovered, is "Lucy", which is a 40% complete skeleton that dates from 3.18 million years ago.
		afarensis is often assumed to be the ancestor of all species of Australopithecines arising later than 3 million years ago.
	www.jevan.com /whitney/e-tamarind/australopithecus.html (452 words)

	Australopithecus
		Australopithecus was a bipedal ape with a small brain (450 cubic centimeters) (Washburn, 1978), and had massive, thickly enamelled molar teeth adapted to a diet of tough plant material.
		Australopithecus ' articular ball of the hip joint exerts about half the pressure on the joint that a human's does, as it is closer to its centre of gravity
		afarensis) and Homo habilis (and the discovery of A.
	www.ecotao.com /holism/hu_austral.htm (7660 words)

	- Human Evolution -
		The importance of this hominid is that scientists believe it to be forest dwelling, which counter-argues the theory that hominids became bipedal because they moved to a savanna environment.
		Australopithecus This genus of hominid, scientists believe, is the link between Ardipithecus ramidus and the Homo genus.
		Australopithecus afarensis A. afarensis existed from 4-3 million years ago.
	www.humboldt.edu /~mrc1 (1649 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Australopithecus afarensis :: overview
		Australopithecus was the genus name first given to later hominids from South Africa, covered in the next chapter, with which the Hadar and Laetoli samples are broadly similar, but vary in significant aspects.
		afarensis provide the largest source of evidence for early hominid adaptations, and any general discussion about early hominid morphology is really a discussion about the morphology of this species.
		afarensis has often been claimed to be a species with a long period of morphological stasis.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/afarensis/afarensis_overview.w (440 words)

	Darwinism Refuted.com
		Under the headline "Adieu Lucy"-Lucy being the most important fossil example of the species Australopithecus afarensis-the magazine reported that apes of the species Australopithecus would have to be removed from the human family tree.
		On top is the AL 444-2 Australopithecus afarensis skull, and on the bottom a skull of a modern chimpanzee.
		A new theory states that the genus Australopithecus is not the root of the human race The results arrived at by the only woman authorized to examine St W573 are different from the normal theories regarding mankind's ancestors: this destroys the hominid family tree.
	www.darwinismrefuted.com /origin_of_man_02.html (724 words)

	Afarensis: New Australopithecus anamensis Finds
		Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia.
		Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both.
		For the origin of Australopithecus, phyletic evolution with a burst of rapid directional change during the 200,000-yr period between 4.4 and 4.2Myr ago remains plausible given the geographic, temporal and morphological relationships of Ar.
	scienceblogs.com /afarensis/2006/04/12/new_australopithecus_anamensis (1883 words)

	The Genus Australopithecus
		The cranial capacity of the Australopithecus anamensis is unknown.
		Many scientists believe Australopithecus afarensis was still active in trees because the fingers and toe bones of the species were curved and longer than the ones of the modern human.
		Australopithecus africanus appeared to be apelike in having a protruding face and small brain, but had distinctly unapelike dentition, including small canines and large, flat molars.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/anthropology/v1007/2002projects/web/australopithecus/austro.html (989 words)

	Human Ancestors Hall: Austalopithecus afarensis
		Inhabiting eastern Africa between four and three million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis was a long-lived species that may have given rise to the several lineages of early human that appeared in both eastern and southern Africa between two and three million years ago.
		afarensis and its ape predecessors, one of which is crucial to later human evolution, bipedality.
		afarensis in the phylogeny of early humans is under debate.
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/humanorigins/ha/afar.html (237 words)

	Australopithecus afarensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This species, along with the later Australopithecus africanus, are considered the gracile australopithecines because of the slightness of their facial features.
		afarensis shared many features with both apes and modern humans, it is believed that other hominid groups evolved from this species.
		afarensis was bipedal as evidenced by the famous footprints found at Laetoli by Mary Leakey, it is believed to have spent a good deal of its time in trees.
	www.anth.ucsb.edu /faculty/stsmith/classes/anth3/courseware/Hominids/03_A_afarensis.html (201 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
		afarensis was that the samples from Laetoli, Maka, Hadar, and other smaller samples belonged to a single species with substantial sexual dimorphism (gorilla-like or orangutan-like in extent) and considerable temporal change from the early to late end of the sequence.
		afarensis sample was statistically similar to the AL 333 sample alone, and Reno and colleagues attempted to assess the possible effects of sample bias by simulating samples in which one sex was highly overrepresented.
		Australopithecus afarensis shares some apomorphies with humans that suggest emphasis on use of the forelimb in flexed postures, and improved grip capability relative to apes.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/afarensis (5478 words)

	Long Foreground - Species Timeline -Australopithecus afarensis - 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Australopithicus afarensis is a recently discovered Hominid species which lived in north east Africa, in the Hadar region of Ethiopia).
		afarensis is classified as an ape, not a human.
		There is evidence that, contrary to previous assumptions, these early Hominids had developed bi-pedalism prior to the disappearance of woodlands and forests in eastern Africa--that is, our Hominid ancestors were by chance "pre-adapted" to the conditions of drier, more open country that came to prevail in eastern Africa later on.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/afarensis/afarensis-a.html (521 words)

	Turkana prehistory - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Forgetting that rather simplistic image for a moment, the upshot of all this is that relatively intelligent, upright, tool-using ancestors of modern man lived in eastern Africa as early as 2.5 million or 3.6 million years ago, or almost twice the time span of previous estimates.
		Whether australopithecus afarensis itself was our direct ancestor is, however, an entirely different matter, although the discovery of a male A.
		Australopithecus anamensis (anam is the Turkana word for lake) is thus the earliest bipedal hominid yet found, and the discovery has only started to fuel more controversy about whether australopithecus could indeed have been our direct ancestor.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/turkana/prehistory.htm (1616 words)

	Hominid Species
		It is similar to afarensis, and was also bipedal, but body size was slightly greater.
		Australopithecus afarensis and africanus, and the other species above, are known as gracile australopithecines, because of their relatively lighter build, especially in the skull and teeth.
		Australopithecus aethiopicus, robustus and boisei are known as robust australopithecines, because their skulls in particular are more heavily built.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/species.html (3114 words)

	Australopithecus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gracile australopithecines (members of the genus Australopithecus) (Latin australis "of the south", Greek pithekos "ape") are a group of extinct hominids that are closely related to humans.
		The fossil record seems to indicate that Australopithecus is the common ancestor of the distinct group of hominines, now called Paranthropus (the "robust australopithecines"), and most likely the genus Homo which includes modern humans.
		afarensis was the definite hominine which left the footprints at Laetoli, it strengthens the notion that A.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australopithecus (1214 words)

	ScienceDaily: Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution
		Dubbed "Lucy's Baby" by some already, she was only three years old when she died and belongs to Australopithecus afarensis (the Lucy species) and was found in an area called Dikika, in Ethiopia, by a paleoanthropological team, the DRP (Dikika Research Project) led by Dr. Zeresenay Alesmeged of the Max Planck Institute.
		Shoulder blades are almost absent in the fossil record of the earliest human ancestors except for fragmentary pieces from Lucy and another Australopithecus species (Australopithecus afarensis).
		Second, the brain size of the Dikika girl, who was 3 when she died, is estimated at 330 cubic centimetres which is not very different from that of a 3 year-old chimpanzee.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/09/060920193509.htm (1785 words)

	Early Hominid Evolution: Analysis of Early Hominids
		Afarensis canine teeth were relatively large and pointed, reminiscent of apes.
		Some of the male afarensis had small sagittal crests.
		Some paleoanthropologists have proposed that neither africanus nor afarensis were ancestral to the robust australopithecines.
	anthro.palomar.edu /hominid/australo_2.htm (2124 words)

	Australopithecus anamensis
		Nine hominid dental, cranial and postcranial specimens from Kanapoi, Kenya, and 12 specimens from Allia Bay, Kenya, were described as a new species of Australopithecus in the August 17, 1995 issue of Nature.
		The relationship between Australopithecus afarensis and Ardipithecus ramidis, a potential ancestral species for all Hominidae, can now be assessed with more temporally intermediate evidence.
		Australopithecus anamensis fossils were initially discovered in 1965, when the distal end of a humerus (KNM-KP 271) was recovered at Kanapoi.
	www.jqjacobs.net /anthro/paleo/anamensis.html (415 words)

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