#afarensis

[sasquatchwoman]

Australopithecus afarensis

[clumsystiggy]

giving prehistoric slay

[neanderthyall]

Omg... im reading about the laetoli footprints and my textbook mentioned that a two pairs of footprints were too close together for the individuals to walk without touching eachother..... you mean to tell me..... two hominins, 3.5 million years ago..... were walking and holding hands........ even possibly hugging........

[personalstudyofeverything]

-Art Credit to David A. Lurino

Australopithecus Afarensis - The dawn of bipedalism (standing on two feet instead of all fours) dates as far back as 5-7 million years ago.

The Origin of Human Kind, Chapter 1: The First Humans

[kidsneedscience]

The Leatoli Footprints and Early Human Ancestors

In 1978 a team led by British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found trace fossils of animal footprints left in ash several million years old.  Searching further, Leakey’s team found the oldest trace fossils of early hominids in Leatoli, about 30 miles south of the famed Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.  The footprints are though to come from three individuals from the australopithecus afarensis family.  Like the pithecanthropus (see recent post here), the australopithecus was named under the assumption that it represented a missing link between humans and primates.  The name australopithecus comes from the Latin word australis meaning south and the Ancient Greek word pithekos meaning ape.  The name was given that same year by Donald Wilson and Tim White, who found fragments two thousand miles north of the Leatoli site in the Afar region of Ethiopia, hence afarensis.

Happy Birthday, Mary Leakey, born on this day, February 6, 1913.

Shout out to my little man, Rowan, another Ethiopian treasure!

Photo via J. Paul Getty Trust, copyright 1995.

[cilginfizikcilervbi]

Dik Yürüme ve Tarak Kemiği 

Dik Yürüme ve Tarak Kemiği  İnsanın ilk atalarında Australopithecus afarensis’in iki ayak üzerinde etkin şekilde yürüdüğü bilinmektedir. Columbia Missouri Üniversitesi bilim insanları Etiyopya Hadar’da bununan 3,2 milyon yıllık dördüncü tarak kemiği yapılan analizler bu bilgiyi netleştirmişti.  Australopithecus afarensis’in soldan dördüncü tarak kemiğinin farklı yönlerden görüntüsü / Dik Yürüme…

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[bilimdergi]

İnsanın Evrimi-7 #evrimdizisi

Hızlı bir şekilde yol almaya devam ediyoruz. Kitaplara ve hatta filmlere konu olan ünlü canlımız Lucy’den sonra diğer atasal-kuzenleri tanımaya devam edelim. Neden artık sadece atasal canlı değil de atasal-kuzen dediğimi önceki yazılarımda bahsettim. Burada tekrar detaya girmeyeceğim.

Bu dizideki tüm yazıları “Evrim Dizisi” bölümünde okuyabilirsiniz.

Australopithecus africanus

Yolculuğumuza…

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[gjiangjian]

Lucy wonders what happened. February 10. . . . . #lucy #australopithecus #afarensis #nationalgeographic #washingtondc #streetphotography #blackandwhite #architecture @natgeo #vsco #vscocam (at National Geographic Society)