A research team, involving researchers ... A team of scientists has pieced together how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved nearly two million years ago.

"Like humans, Australopithecus had an S-shaped spine to hold an upright trunk on a tilted pelvis, and vertebral facets that are immense and become wider as you progress downward through the column ...

Williams, an associate professor of anthropology in the Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University, and co-author of two of the papers, including the one on the vertebral column. The ...

The Australopithecus afarensis skeleton was ... looked fairly small to fit with the rest of Lucy's vertebral column." After looking into the fragment, they realised it was "just too small" to ...

How Au. Sediba walked, chewed and moved Date: April 11, 2013 Source: University of the Witwatersrand Summary: The 2-million-year-old fossils belong to the species Australopithecus sediba (Au ...

An artist’s reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis ... the notochord becomes the vertebral column) Class: Mammalia Under this system, the term hominid refers to members of the Hominidae ...

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images ...

A team of scientists has pieced together how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved nearly two million years ago. Their research, which appears in six papers in ...