Paranthropus in a sentence

Louis had considered Broom's Paranthropus genus, but rejected it because he believed Zinj was in the Homo ancestral stock but Paranthropus was not.

This gave no reason to assign the new skull in the genus Paranthropus, unless it could somehow be linked to be a previous version of the Paranthropus.

Although there is no direct evidence which identifies Paranthropus as the tool makers, their anatomy lends to indirect evidence of their capabilities in this area.

Description All species of Paranthropus were bipedal, and many lived during a time when species of the genus Homo (which were possibly descended from Australopithecus), were prevalent.

However, if these species do indeed constitute their own genus, then they may be given their own name, the Paranthropus.

However, Paranthropus skulls lack the transverse cranial crests that are also present in modern gorillas.

In 1938 Paranthropus robustus bones were found at Kromdraai, and during 1947 several more examples of Australopithecus africanus were uncovered in Sterkfontein.

In 1994, Randall Susman used the anatomy of opposable thumbs as the basis for his argument that both the Homo and Paranthropus species were toolmakers.

Intelligence further Species of Paranthropus had smaller braincases than Homo, yet they had significantly larger braincases than Australopithecus.

Paranthropus is associated with stone tools both in southern and eastern Africa, although there is considerable debate whether they were made and utilized by these robust australopithecines or contemporaneous Homo.

Paranthropus is thought to have lived in wooded areas rather than the grasslands of Australopithecus.

Paranthropus was more massively built craniodentally and tended to sport gorilla -like sagittal crests on the cranium which anchored massive temporalis muscles of mastication.

The extra support in the big toe and extensive plantar aponeurosis shows that Paranthropus had hyperextension of their toes for a "toe-off" gait cycle, characteristic of modern bipedalism in humans.

The facial structure of the Kenyanthropus and its derived features were very different of that of the Paranthropus, including almost every cranial feature.

Their results suggest that Paranthropus boisei dined more heavily on C4 plants than any other human ancestor or human relative studied to date.

There is currently no consensus in the scientific community whether P. aethiopicus, P. boisei and P. robustus should be placed into a distinct genus, Paranthropus, which is believed to have evolved from the ancestral Australopithecus line.

There was some size variation between the different species of Paranthropus, but most stood roughly 1.3-1.4 m (4 ft 3 in to 4 ft 7 in) tall and were quite well muscled.

There were also significant morphological differences between Australopithecus and Paranthropus, although the differences were found on the cranial remains.

The Zinj question ultimately became part of the Australopithecus/Paranthropus question (which only applied to the robust Australopithecines).

Up until the last half-decade, the majority of the scientific community included all the species of both Australopithecus and Paranthropus in a single genus.