Australopithecus

australopithecus Translingual + Etymology mul la-new -, from mul la austrālis southern + mul grc πίθηκος ape, mul Q379590 1 1925 1 in reference to the type specimen having been found in South Africa. Proper noun †1 m Australopitheci genus family Hominidae a group of extinct hominids related to humans – australopiths en mul W. Mehlert The Australopithecines and (Alleged) Early Man Harold L. Armstrong Creation Research Society Quarterly 17 1 Ann Arbor, Mich. w:Creation Research Society 24 October 1979 June 1980 24 https://archive.org/details/crsq-1980-volume-17-number-1/page/24/mode/1up 1 Likewise, Richard Leakey himself is of the opinion that all Australopitheci were not habitual upright walkers. en mul Bernard Michollet Evolution and Anthropology. Human Beings as the ‘Image of God’ Bas van Iersel; Christoph Theobald; Hermann Häring Evolution and Faith Concilium 2000/1 London w:SCM Press 2000 section III (The Dialogue with Faith and Theology) 81 https://archive.org/details/evolutionfaith0000unse/page/81/mode/1up 0 334 03057 9 Do we have to see in this making of tools only a particular adaptation, analogous, for example, to birds making nests? Or are degrees of intelligence and significant consciousness already present in certain types of Australopitheci? en mul David Bainbridge Where women’s bodies came from Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape London Portobello Books 2015 part I (The Body) 19 https://archive.org/details/curvologyorigins0000bain/page/19/mode/1up 978 1 84627 550 0 Australopithecus was probably already adapted for bipedal walking, but its brain was not much larger than a chimp’s, so there was still a lot of obstetric leeway. The pelvis was now a different shape, however, and we think that baby Australopitheci may have been born with their head ‘sideways’ relative to their mother’s body, with their nose pointing towards their mother’s left or right hip. en mul James Griffiths This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/09/asia/indonesia-flores-hobbits-trnd/index.html 2016-06-09 Discoverer Mike Morwood proposed that it was a shrunken Homo erectus, the same species that eventually evolved to become us; others suggested the Hobbits were descended from smaller, more primitive early humans such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411004955/https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/09/asia/indonesia-flores-hobbits-trnd/index.html nl mul Marianen Gommers; Desirée Hagens; Arthur Jansen; Miranda Jansen; André van Leijen; Hans Rawee; Theo de Rouw Biologie voor jou edition 6.1 Malmberg 2020 217 https://archive.org/details/Malmberg-bvj-books/601740-01_bvj_4h_lob_a_bladerboek/page/217/mode/1up 978 94 020 7765 0 In afbeelding 2 staat een schatting van de lichaamslengte van deze twee twee Australopitheci. Usage notes Members of the genus Paranthropus genus are sometimes grouped together with this genus. Hypernyms genus ; Homininae subfamily subfamily; Hominini tribe tribe; Hominina subtribe subtribe Hyponyms genus Australopithecus africanus species type species, Australopithecus afarensis species, Australopithecus bahrelghazali species, Australopithecus anamensis species, Australopithecus garhi species, Australopithecus sediba species other species mul Hominids English Alternative forms en australopithecus Etymology From the genus name mul Australopithecus. Pronunciation en /ˌɒstɹələˈpɪθɪkəs/ Noun Australopitheci + en australopith. en Pavel Kann Robert Daglish Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island Leningrad: A Short Guide Moscow Foreign Languages Publishing House 1959 86 https://archive.org/details/leningrad0000pave/page/86/mode/1up In its turn the institute received from the British Museum of Natural History plaster casts of the skulls of Australopithecuses, a species of higher ape which lived over a million years ago. en Herbert Musurillo [Book Reviews: Philosophy] The Phenomenon of Man. By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.With an Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. Pp. 318. $5.00. Thought: Fordham University Quarterly; A Review of Culture and Idea XXXV 138 New York, N.Y. w:Fordham University Press autumn 1960 450 https://archive.org/details/sim_thought_autumn-1960_35_138/page/450/mode/1up 0040-6457 In his final period, Teilhard felt he saw all his own Weltanschauung confirmed by Dr. Broom’s work with the fossils of Australopitheci in South Africa; en w:Stephen Fuchs The Human Race in Its Development from the Earliest Times The Origin of Man and His Culture New York, N.Y. Asia Publishing House 1963 25 https://archive.org/details/originofmanhiscu0000step/page/25/mode/1up 1. Australopithecus africanus. (a) Taungs: It was found in 1924 in a cave at Taungs in Bechuanaland, South Africa. It is the oldest of all Australopitheci, about 600,000 years old. en w:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin John Michael Cohen The Question of Fossil Man The Appearance of Man New York, N.Y. Harper & Row 1965 108–109 https://archive.org/details/appearanceofman00teil/page/109/mode/1up 66-10233 On the other, in the fossil-bearing pockets exposed in the Transvaal, in the region of Johannesburg (Taungs, Sterkfontein) by quarries opened in the limestone (exactly as at Choukoutien), a whole series of skulls and jaws, and some limb bones have, since 1925, gradually been disclosing the extremely curious group of Australopitheci. en Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko anonymous The Origin of Man Global Ecology Moscow w:Progress Publishers 1980 section VIII (The Ecological Mechanism of the Evolution of Man) 224 https://archive.org/details/globalecology0000mibu/page/224/mode/1up In the middle of the nineteenth century there were very few paleontological data shedding light on the origin of man. During the past century many major discoveries were made in that area, among which the discovery of remains of Australopithecuses in South and East Africa was particularly important, as was the discovery of remains of Pithecanthropes and of closely related creatures (Homo erectus) in Java, China, and Africa. en Claudine Roland Ann MacDonald-Plénacoste Tools and Men Prehistory In Focus Vic-en-Bigorre MSM 1995 9 https://archive.org/details/prehistory00rola/page/9/mode/1up 2-909998-39-8 1271-8599 The Australopitheci, who lived between the years - 6 million and - 1 million, perhaps mingled with the first representatives of the human race, the Homo habilis… their presence is certified in Africa as early as the year - 2.4 million, but could date back to the year - 3 million. en Dario Gamboni Mark Treharne From the origins to the classical age Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art London w:Reaktion Books 2002 22–23 https://archive.org/details/potentialimagesa0000gamb/page/22/mode/1up 1-86189-149-0 This stone, which was discovered, several kilometres from any possible geological source, in a cave occupied by Australopitheci in South Africa, must have been found and transported about three million years ago on account of its redness, its accidental likeness to a face and, above all, because of its ‘gaze’. en Bruno G. Bara John Douthwaite The Evolution of Communicative Competence Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication Cambridge, Mass. w:MIT Press 2010 215 https://archive.org/details/cognitivepragmat0000bara/page/215/mode/1up 978-0-262-01411-3 In this sphere too, Homo habilis was the first species of Homo to exhibit the brain capacity crucial to sustain language: 700 ccs against the 450 ccs of the Australopitheci who preceded him, and significantly greater development in the parietal and frontal areas, which are respectively responsible for the control over language and over the hands. en Stephen B. Pearl Officialdom Worlds Apart Toronto, Ont. Dark Dragon Publishing 2012 30 July 2013 25 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780987972682/page/25/mode/1up 978-0-9879726-8-2 It’s Wizard McDowl, chaos magic terrifies him. He watched his parents turn into Australopithecuses during the war. He’s never got over it. en Hominids