Australopithecines

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• EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS AND HOMO ("family tree") -- Nicholas F. Bellantoni
  
  
• AFRICAN PLIOCENE & PLEISTOCENE HOMINIDS -- Anth 233, UConn
  
  
• ArchNet -- World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology
  
  
• The Evolution of Man -- Hooper Paleontological Museum
  
  
• Nicole's AnthroPage -- Archaeology
  
  
• "Bone Tools Suggest Hominids [ A. robustus] Ate Termites" -- ABC News
  
  
• The Hominid Family Tree -- PBS

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Australopithecus
Australopithecus -- Wikipedia

• anamensis
  Australopithecus anamensis -- Wikipedia
  
  

Australopithecus anamensis -- abcNews.com

Australopithecus anamensis -- Lorraine Dallmeier

Australpithecus anamensis -- James Q. Jacobs

Australopithecus anamensis -- Origins of Humankind

Australopithecus anamensis -- About

• The big news from Anthropology in the News for 14 April 2006 was the discovery of new Australopithecus anamensis fossils:

• Fossils Fill Gap in Human Lineage -- BBC News (4/12/06)
  
  
  • New Fossil Links Up Human Evolution -- ABC News (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Hominid Fossils from Ethiopia Link Ape-Men to More Distant Human Ancestors -- EurekAlert (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Fossil Find Improves Knowledge of Human Origins -- LiveScience (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Ancient Fossils Fill Gap in Early Human Evolution -- Reuters (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Fossil Connects Human Evolution Dots -- CNN (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Fossils Fill Human Evolution Gap -- Discovery (4/13/06)
    
    
  • Earlier Ancestors: Ethiopian Fossils Link Humans to 4.4 Million-Year-Old Apelike Creatures, Researchers Say -- San Francisco Chronicle (4/13/05)
    
    
  • New Fossils Add Link to the Chain of the Evolution of Humans -- New York Times (4/13/06)

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Afar region (map of Ethiopia)

• afarensis (including "Lucy" and the "First Family")
  Australopithecus afarensis -- Wikipedia
  
  

Australopithecus afarensis
National Geographic photo gallery -- "Selem"

Puzzling Over Pre-Humans -- MSNBC (10/6/08)

Australopithicus afarensis: The story of Lucy -- WSU

Australopithecus afarensis -- Lorraine Dallmeier

Early Fossil Jaw, Tools Found In Ethiopia -- Institute of Human Origins

Lucy -- Institute of Human Origins

The First Humans -- D. I. Loizos

Australopithecus afarensis -- Hooper Paleontological Museum

Australopithecus afarensis -- Dr. Meave Leakey

 

Images

Australopithecus afarensis -- CSUS



Animation

Australopithecus afarensis -- American Museum of Natural History

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen

[Out of Order] Animation - A Left Hip Joint Model of Lucy -- Hominid Palaeontology Research Group

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• africanus
  Australopithecus africanus -- Wikipedia
  • "The Taung Child"
    
    
  • "Little Foot"
    
    
    • Major fossil find at Sterkfontein Caves -- University of Witwatersrand
      
      
  • Australopithecus africanus -- The Stone Way
    
    
  • Ausralopithecus africanus -- Hooper Paleontological Museum
    
    
  • Australopithecus africanus -- Lorraine Dallmeier
    
    
  • Images
    
    
    • Australopithecus africanus "Mrs. Ples", STS-5 -- CSUS
      
  • Animation
    
    
    • Australopithecus africanus -- American Museum of Natural History
      
      
    • Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen

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• garhi
  Australopithecus garhi -- Wikipedia

• "Australopithecus garhi, A New Human Ancestor?" -- James Q. Jacobs
  
  
• New Human Ancestor? -- ABC News
  
  
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  • Animation

 

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Paranthropus
(aka Australopithecus robustus)
Australopithecus robustus (Paranthropus) -- Wikipedia

Australopithecus robustus in southern Africa 1 million years ago.

Australopithecus robustus SK 48

One of the the teeth of four individuals of Paranthropus robustus
(also known as Australopithecus robustus)
from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa.
(Science)

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• aethiopicus
  Australopithecus aethiopicus (Paranthropus aethiopicus) -- Wikipedia
  
  
  • Australopithecus aethiopicus -- Aleksey Vlasko
    
    
  • Australopithecus aethiopicus -- Lorraine Dallmeier
    
    
  • Images
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  • Animation
    • Paranthropus aethiopicus -- American Museum of Natural History

 

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• boisei
  Australopithecus boisei (Paranthropus boisei) -- Wikipedia

Australopithecus boisei

• Australopithecus boisei -- Ants In Hand Museum
  
  
• Australpithecus boisei -- Hooper Paleontological Museum
  
  
• Australopithecus boisei -- Lorraine Dallmeier
  
  

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Images

Australopithecus boisei -- 3/4 view

Australopithecus boisei -- CSUS

Animation

Paranthropus boisei -- American Museum of Natural History

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• robustus
  Australopithecus robustus -- Wikipedia
• "Bone Tools Suggest Hominids [ A. robustus] Ate Termites" -- ABC News
  
  
• Australopithicus robustus: A contemporary of early human
  
  
• Australopithecus robustus -- Lorraine Dallmeier
  
  
• Images
  
  
  • Paranthropus robustus -- American Museum of Natural History
    
    
  • Australopithecus robustus -- CSUS
    
    
  • Australopithecus robustus -- Hooper Paleontological Museum
    
    
• Animation
  • Paranthropus robustus -- American Museum of Natural History