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The first thing I feel the need to mention is the fact that the Paranthropus species are often referred to as the Robust Australopithecines, this has to do with the fact that they are incredibly ...
Paranthropus robustus, often referred to as Australopithecus robustus, coexisted with early members of the genus Homo, including Homo ergaster, an early human ancestor.
On the relationship between maxillary molar root shape and jaw kinematics in Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. Royal Society Open Science, 2018; 5: 180825 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180825 ...
Jerusalem Post Science Science Around the World New fossils reveal Paranthropus robustus walked upright like modern humans Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species ...
Initially, we thought the pits might be unique to P. robustus. But our latest research shows this kind of pitting also occurs in other Paranthropus species in eastern Africa. We even found it in some ...
Biological anthropologist Travis Pickering of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has extensively studied early members of the human family tree, such as Australopithecus robustus and Homo erectus.
This bone, called the ramus, looks much the same in A. afarensis, in a roughly 2-million-year-old robust australopithecine species known as Australopithecus robustus, and in modern gorillas, the ...
Omur A. Kustaloglu, Australopithecus and Paranthropus Dentitions, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Autumn, 1961), pp. 226-238 ...
Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.
Ever since the discovery of the fossil remains of Australopithecus africanus from Taung nearly a century ago, and subsequent discoveries of Paranthropus robustus, there have been disagreements about ...
But among southern Africa Australopithecus and our own genus, Homo, the uniform pitting was notably absent. Teeth from Paranthropus robustus skulls found in South African caves provided evidence ...