Can you help me summarize what is known about australopithecus?

Question

I'm having such a tough time finding a comprehensive article online that isn't about one specific form of australopithecus. Any and all information is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try the old fashioned method ... go to the library and read books and take notes ... collate the notes make a list and further reduce the list to major characteristics and then turn that into a summary or abstract?

Read Research and Write!

I dont know what search words you have been using but apart from the Wikipedia sites mentioned by another poster have you tried a general search using:

Australopithecus Genus

Go thru those Wikipedia articles and look for keywords you can use to create new search terms!

Answer 2

There is nothing to summarise, it was simply an ape and nothing whatsoever to do with evolution, or of humanity.

Answer 3

I suppose wikipedia is not allowed, even though it is a nice little article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopit...

or talk origins

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/spe...

Here is an extract from the Columbia Encyclopedia 2008

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Aust...

a slightly different entry from the electronic Columbia Encylopedia 2007

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0...

Answer 4

There's lots of Australopithecines out there as it's a genus not a species.  Did you mean Australopithecus aethiopicus, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus boisei, Australopithecus garhi, or Australopithecus robustus?  There's huge differences in all of them.