africanus in both size and shape, as well as in their ... is possible that the climbing features in the skeleton of Australopithecus sediba and other australopiths are functionally unimportant ...

Dubbed Australopithecus sediba, it has many features — including ... Few changes would be expected in its cranial size and shape, which are critical in characterizing a primate species.

Analysis of early human bone fossils reveals adaptations for climbing trees and manipulating stones millions of years ago.

FLATOW: And you've called this Australopithecus sediba ... But it's not the brain size that's important about sediba. What it appears from the synchrotron brain scan that we did, and Dr. Kristian ...

Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive ... palaeontologists can estimate the size of a brain." According to ...

The Australopithecus sediba discovered in 2008 could be the ... of the forebrain must have occurred before the actual size increase in the brain. New information was also facilitated by the ...

Known as Australopithecus sediba, the ancient human ancestor was ... humans yet was surprisingly small—only about a quarter the size of a modern human brain, or a little larger than the brain ...

The estimated adult brain size based on the MH-1 juvenile is ... human origins of any site on the planet. What does Australopithecus sediba mean? Australopithecus means "southern ape", after ...

The fossil hands of Australopithecus sediba (around two million years old) and Homo naledi (around 250,000 years old) show that these South African hominins may have had different levels of dexterity, ...

For Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.95 million years ... It's a different story today, where the size and shape of the modern pelvis (a trade-off needed for walking upright), and the ...

How about your ancient relatives? Thanks to fossil finds, scientists now know a lot more about our ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba. The species was first discovered in 2008 in ...