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 ...

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.

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 ...

In a series of reports published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, the researchers describe the Australopithecus sediba specimens ... to one-quarter the size of a modern human brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fossils of the extinct hominid known as Australopithecus sediba were accidentally discovered ... or just below the size of a human hair. The scan revealed Au. sediba had a much smaller brain ...

Three years ago researchers added a new branch to the human family tree: Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million ... walked upright long before brain size expanded, settling a longstanding ...