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This 4 page paper discusses fossil species, missing links, and indicators of bipedalism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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ancient ancestors of ours and see what they tell us. The oldest Australopithecus is the Australopithecus anamensis, discovered in Kenya in 1965 by Bryan Patterson (Prominent hominid fossils, 2004). This
find is approximately 4 million years old, but it is not the most complete Australopithecus. The credit for being most complete Australopithecus goes to a find called "AL 444-2," Australopithecus
afarensis (Prominent hominid fossils, 2004). It was discovered at Hadar, Ethiopia, by Bill Kimbel and Yoel Rak in 1991 (Prominent hominid fossils, 2004). The find is estimated to be at
least 3 million years old, and the skull is 70% complete; and adult male; "easily the most complete afarensis skull known, with a brain size of 550 cc" (Prominent hominid
fossils, 2004). The oldest Homo species is Homo habilis, which was found by Richard Leakey in the early 1960s in Tanzania at Olduvai Gorge; these were "fragmentary specimens" (Prominent
hominid fossils, 2004). The most complete Homo habilis skull known was found by Bernard Ngeneo in Kenya, at Koobi Fora in 1972; it is estimated to be 1.9 million years
old and has a 750 cc brain (Prominent hominid fossils, 2004). At first habilis was dated earlier than Australopithecus, which caused a great deal of argument since it was supposed
to be descended from him; it has since been redated. The earliest Homo erectus found is "Java man," discovered on the island of Java in 1891, by Eugene Dubois (Prominent
hominid fossils, 2004). Java Man is believed to be about 700,000 years old, with a brain size of 940 cc (Prominent hominid fossils, 2004). The most complete Homo erectus fossils
are: "Skull III, discovered at Locus E in 1929 is an adolescent or juvenile with a brain size of 915 cc"; Skull II, found at Locus D-an adolescent with a
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