{"id":108,"date":"2017-09-13T20:18:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-history-of-our-tribe\/chapter\/9-gracile-australopiths\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:55:08","slug":"9-gracile-australopiths","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-history-of-our-tribe\/chapter\/9-gracile-australopiths\/","title":{"raw":"9. Gracile Australopiths","rendered":"9. Gracile Australopiths"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"nine\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_188\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\"]<img class=\"wp-image-188\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2461\/2017\/09\/13201849\/image4-1-300x283.png\" alt=\"7.4\" width=\"400\" height=\"378\" \/> <em>Figure 9.1\u00a0<\/em>Australopith fossil sites.\u00a0<b><\/b>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Map_of_the_fossil_sites_of_the_early_hominids_(4.4-1M_BP).svg\">Map of the fossil sites of the early hominids (4.4-1M BP)<\/a>\u201d by Kameraad Pjotr and Sting is licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nGenus <i>Australopithecus<\/i> (\u201csouthern ape\u201d) was first used in 1924 by Raymond Dart for the \u201cTaung Child,\u201d a juvenile <i>Au. africanus<\/i> specimen from the quarry site of Taung, in South Africa. <i>Au. anamensis<\/i>, <i>afarensis<\/i>, <i>africanus<\/i>, and <i>sediba<\/i> (depending on the evolutionary schema of individual paleoanthropologists) are popularly known as gracile australopiths, due to their more gracile masticatory apparatus relative to the robust paranthropines.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_276\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"784\"]<img class=\"wp-image-276 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2461\/2017\/09\/13201855\/Ape-on-a-branch-784x1024.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"784\" height=\"1024\" \/> <em>Figure 9.2\u00a0<\/em>An australopith outlook. By Keenan Taylor,<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\"> CC-BY-NC-SA<\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"nine\">\n<div id=\"attachment_188\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-image-188\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2461\/2017\/09\/13201849\/image4-1-300x283.png\" alt=\"7.4\" width=\"400\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Figure 9.1\u00a0<\/em>Australopith fossil sites.\u00a0<b><\/b>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Map_of_the_fossil_sites_of_the_early_hominids_(4.4-1M_BP).svg\">Map of the fossil sites of the early hominids (4.4-1M BP)<\/a>\u201d by Kameraad Pjotr and Sting is licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Genus <i>Australopithecus<\/i> (\u201csouthern ape\u201d) was first used in 1924 by Raymond Dart for the \u201cTaung Child,\u201d a juvenile <i>Au. africanus<\/i> specimen from the quarry site of Taung, in South Africa. <i>Au. anamensis<\/i>, <i>afarensis<\/i>, <i>africanus<\/i>, and <i>sediba<\/i> (depending on the evolutionary schema of individual paleoanthropologists) are popularly known as gracile australopiths, due to their more gracile masticatory apparatus relative to the robust paranthropines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_276\" style=\"width: 794px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-image-276 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2461\/2017\/09\/13201855\/Ape-on-a-branch-784x1024.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"784\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Figure 9.2\u00a0<\/em>An australopith outlook. 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