Australopithecus?

Question

What are some things you have to say regarding australopithecus and fossils

australopithecus and evolution?

what did they evolved into?

Answer 1

These fossils support two seperate sets of theories.

1-that the earth and mankind are way older than the 6000 years that some christians want you to believe.

2-that the search for specialization did not end with the development of a single species, that there must have been the emergence of many different species over longer periods of time for the current natural paradigm to evolve into what it is today

Answer 2

Australopithecus is a diverse genus.  It includes A. afarensis to africanus.  Some such as lucy probably resemble chimps more than humans except that they were more bipedal like us.  Australopithecus apparently evolved into separate lineages demonstrating that human evolution branches like every other animal.  They evolved into us apparently as well as the Paranthropus line of robust australopithecines.  There are even interesting theories that they may have evolved into chimps and gorillas but this is not accepted by very many paleontologists.

Answer 3

Quite simply...us!

Answer 4

Here, meet some of our relatives:

Sahelanthropus tchadensis. 6 to 7 million years ago

Ardipithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years ago

Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years ago

Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years ago

Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years ago

Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago

Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years ago

Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

(Homo neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years ago)

Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years ago to present

The problem is, there is nothing in these fossil samples to suggest which of the  Australopithecus species evolved into modern humans, or if it was another, yet undiscovered species.

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