The makers are unknown, but may be early Homo | Thompson, Bert 1977 , Theistic Evolution Shreveport, LA: Lambert |
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Recent research suggests that the some australopithecines were capable of a precision grip, like that of humans but unlike apes, which would have meant they were capable of making stone tools | Journal of Human Evolution, 16:741-61 |
This small-brained, large-toothed hominid was found near antelope bones which had been butchered by stone tools Asfaw et al.
The brain size can not be measured directly, but from the size of the bones the skull is similar in size to the two larger Dmanisi skulls D2280 and D2282 and so probably in the 650-800 cc range , which is small for erectus | Apr 2010: Two partial skeletons assigned to a new species, Australopithecus sediba, were discovered at Malapa in South Africa in 2008 |
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Thompson, Bert 1995 , Creation Compromises Montgomery, AL: Apologetics Press | American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 25:1-91 |
Apr 1999: A new species, Australopithecus garhi, has been named from fossils found near Bouri in Ethiopia, by a joint Ethiopian, American and Japanese team.
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