3.18 million-year-old Lucy to make first ever visit to Europe.

The Czech prime minister announced on Tuesday that the skeleton remains of the Australopithecus will go on display in Prague next August.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250204-318-million-year-old-lucy-to-make-first-ever-visit-to-europe?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Paleontology #Australopithecus #AustrolopithecusAfarensis #Science #Czechia #CzechRepublic #Prague #Museum

@glasgoweverdeen mode bestial activé attention les bg…. je mords je croque #australopithecus

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7315
The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains. #Australopithecus africanus—a bipedal primate that lived between 3.2 and 2 million years ago—were primarily vegetarians.
#prehistoire
#vegetarian
Les #australopitheque étaient plus #végétariens qu'on nous l'a raconté

"Breaking new ground in our understanding of early #humanDiet and #evolution scientists have discovered that our ancient relatives may not have been the avid #meatEaters previously believed. Research reveals that #Australopithecus, one of humanity’s earliest ancestors who lived in South Africa between 3.7 and 3.3 million years ago, primarily maintained a #plantbasedDiet rather than regularly consuming #meat."

https://studyfinds.org/ancient-tooth-enamel-early-human-diet-meat/

Time for #vegetarian #Australopithecus https://www.reuters.com/science/meat-was-not-menu-human-ancestor-australopithecus-2025-01-16/ #evolution #science #vegan

17-Jan-2025
Three million years ago, our ancestors were #vegetarian
Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel show no evidence of meat consumption in #Australopithecus

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070872 #science #humans #anthropology #HumanEvolution #evolution

Australopithecus war noch kein Jäger. Vegetarischer Vormenschen-Speiseplan ähnelte vor drei Millionen Jahren noch dem von Affen. #Australopithecus #Vormenschen #Menschheitsgeschichte #Evolution
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/australopithecus-war-noch-vegetarier/

Vegetarisch statt Fleisch - der Speiseplan unserer Vorfahren

Es ist eine der großen Fragen der Menschheitsgeschichte: Seit wann essen unsere Vorfahren Fleisch? Mit einer neuen Zahnanalyse konnten der Speiseplan von menschlichen Vorfahren zum ersten Mal untersucht werden - mit einem klaren Ergebnis. Von P. Kiss.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forschung/palaeontologie-australopithecus-fleischkonsum-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Paläontologie #Australopithecus #Fleischkonsum

Original study:

K. T. Bates et al., Running performance in #Australopithecus afarensis, Current Biology, online December 18, 2024. 🔓

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01566-5

Study reveals Lucy and early hominins may have used tools 3.2 million years ago

A recent study has challenged previous assumptions about early human tool use by examining the hand structure of ancient hominins, specifically the Australopithecus genus...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/11/early-hominins-may-have-used-tools/

Follow @archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #lucy #anthropology

#VideoTitle "Top Four Recent Human Evolution Discoveries", by https://youtube.com/@gutsickgibbon at https://youtu.be/ZJLm5ag7bRw

#VideoDescription
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[1] Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp3757

[2] Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50649-7

[3] A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248424000873

[4] Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(24)00177-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666979X24001770%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

[5] Spatial sampling bias influences our understanding of early hominin evolution in eastern Africa
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02522-5

[6] Darwin's fear was unjustified: Study suggests fossil record gaps not a major issue
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-darwin-unjustified-fossil-gaps-major.html

[7] Annelid Comparative Genomics and the Evolution of Massive Lineage-Specific Genome Rearrangement in Bilaterians
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41/9/msae172/7733614?login=false
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TAGS:
[1] #Cognition #cognitiveFunction #Vocalization #vocalCall #Marmoset #Language #Communication #socialCommunication

[2] #HomoGenus #H_floresiensis #H_luzonensis #MataMenge #FloresIsland #Indonesia #middlePleistocene #Pleistocene #homininFossil #Java #H_erectus #60ka #700ka

[3] #homininMandible #EastTurkana #Kenya #4_3Ma #Australopithecus #Au_anamensis #Au_afarensis #Ardipithecus #Ar_ramidus #Anagenesis #Cladogenesis

[4] #Neanderthal #Thorin #Eurasia #Gibraltar #GrotteMandrin #France #50ka #42ka #105ka

[5] #EasternAfricanRiftSystem #EARS #cercopithecinePrimate

[6] #FossilRecord #Simulation #Projection #Resolution

[7] #Genome #Genomics #Recombination #geneticRecombination #Adaptation #Speciation #bilateralSymmetry #Annelida #Clitellata #Leech #Earthworm

50 years ago, evidence showed that an extinct human ancestor walked upright
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-ancestor-fossil-upright-walk-50-years-ago

#Paleontology
#Paleoanthropology
#Prehistoric
#Ancestor
#Australopithecus
#SahelanthropusTchadensis
#HipJoint
#SignsOfUprightWalking

Who was our #ancient #human #ancestor, the chimp - like creature named #Lucy!

Find out!

#Paleoanthropology #HumansOrigins #Australopithecus #Afarensis #Anthropology #Archaeology #History #Fossil

Darf man unersetzliche Fossilien in All schicken? Streit um Mitnahme von menschlichen Fossilien bei suborbitalem Virgin-Galactic-Flug. #Fossilien #VirginGalactic #Australopithecus #Homonaledi #Menschheitsgeschichte #Vormensch #Menschenknochen
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/darf-man-unersetzliche-fossilien-in-all-schicken/

Humans have 46 chromosomes -23 pairs- and great apes have 48. This is because 4.5 million years ago in a non-human primate two chromosomes merged and gave rise to our chromosome 2 That isolated us from rest of primates.
We never exchanged genes with them again That event is far enough in time from that 900,000 years ago bottleneckfor it to have nothing to do with it.
#Australopithecus lived 2.5 million years ago and are supposed to have been able to walk upright, although not great distances

Speaking of #JacobBronowski (which I wasn't) came across a bit about controversy between him and #SollyZuckerman, whether #Australopithecus was a #hominid or not. Would have read about this a long long time ago, but the names meant nothing particular to me then.

Remember the National Geographic hologram covers, including one of the #TaungChild?

Bronowski cradles a replica in the first episode of #TheAscentOfMan, and talks about the direction it imposed upon his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taung_Child

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/06/01/my-evolution-evolution/
Reminiscing about my shock when I had to fully accept the reality of human evolution. I've been evolving my whole life. As we all should.
#Religion, #Science, #australopithecus, #Baptist, #biology, #Budos Band, #Christianity, #CinematicOrchestra, #creationism, #Devo, #evolution, #fundamentalism, #paleoanthropology, #paleontology, #Simpsons

Reappraising the palaeobiology of #Australopithecus
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05957-1

#hominid