Australopithecus Research Paper
”No, please don’t kill me! Don’t push me off this tree! I’ll do anything!”
“ Mark my words, your body will rot until the day they find you, fellow australopithecus!”
“NOOOO!”
******* 3.2 Million Years Later *******
“Hey, Tom look what I found!”
“What is it Donald?”
And that’s how it all happened. At least that is how I imagined it happening. My theory is that Australopithecine were creatures in the transitional phase from chimpanzee to human but, were in fact more human than like a chimpanzee’s. Australopithecine are more on the human side because they have the ability to walk upright, their pelvic area is like a human’s, and their jaw are more like a human’s jaw.
First off, the ability to be bipedal has always been one of the greatest …show more content…
Accordingly, the pelvic bone in an Australopithecus is very similar to a modern human's pelvis. The ilium in a human looks like a rough copy of the Australopithecines’ ilium just constricted. Unlike a chimpanzee’s pelvic bone, both the Australopithecus and the human pelvic bone have a rounded end to it. In the figure with the exhibit, the central skeleton, the Australopithecus, has a rounded pelvis that is more wide than it is long. This is also evident in the human skeleton, the one to the right of the one in the …show more content…
Other similarities between chimpanzees and humans include the size of the molars in the back compared with the rest of the teeth and the shape of the jaw. It is quite obvious when looking at a modern human's teeth, that the molars in the back are immense when compared with the front teeth. This same principle applies to the teeth of an Australopithecus. Their teeth are enormous in the back and when you get to the front they are more petite in comparison. Chimpanzee teeth, in the images provided, have the appearance of being approximately the same size all throughout. In addition to all of this it can be observed that the bottom jaw of an Australopithecus is more rounded, unlike the jaws of a chimpanzee, which are pointed. And what type of modern homo has a rounded jaw? Who else but,
“ Mark my words, your body will rot until the day they find you, fellow australopithecus!”
“NOOOO!”
******* 3.2 Million Years Later *******
“Hey, Tom look what I found!”
“What is it Donald?”
And that’s how it all happened. At least that is how I imagined it happening. My theory is that Australopithecine were creatures in the transitional phase from chimpanzee to human but, were in fact more human than like a chimpanzee’s. Australopithecine are more on the human side because they have the ability to walk upright, their pelvic area is like a human’s, and their jaw are more like a human’s jaw.
First off, the ability to be bipedal has always been one of the greatest …show more content…
Accordingly, the pelvic bone in an Australopithecus is very similar to a modern human's pelvis. The ilium in a human looks like a rough copy of the Australopithecines’ ilium just constricted. Unlike a chimpanzee’s pelvic bone, both the Australopithecus and the human pelvic bone have a rounded end to it. In the figure with the exhibit, the central skeleton, the Australopithecus, has a rounded pelvis that is more wide than it is long. This is also evident in the human skeleton, the one to the right of the one in the …show more content…
Other similarities between chimpanzees and humans include the size of the molars in the back compared with the rest of the teeth and the shape of the jaw. It is quite obvious when looking at a modern human's teeth, that the molars in the back are immense when compared with the front teeth. This same principle applies to the teeth of an Australopithecus. Their teeth are enormous in the back and when you get to the front they are more petite in comparison. Chimpanzee teeth, in the images provided, have the appearance of being approximately the same size all throughout. In addition to all of this it can be observed that the bottom jaw of an Australopithecus is more rounded, unlike the jaws of a chimpanzee, which are pointed. And what type of modern homo has a rounded jaw? Who else but,