Australopithecines Flashcards
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Earlier Australopithecines were smaller creatures about the size of a chimpanzee but seemed to evolve into other species which were much bigger and?
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More muscular as well as giving rise to our genus, Homo
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Are early hominids that evolved in Africa about?
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5 million years ago
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Brain size was only a?
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Little bigger than an ape’s
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Q
They had ape-like heads with a?
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Flat face, nose
No chin
Powerful jaws
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Walked upright but with a slightly more…
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Rolling gait than modern humans
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Australopithecus afarensis is thought to have lived between?
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4-2.5 mya
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afarensis believed to have lived in family groups and ate mainly
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Plant food
