Description

• Title:
  The Australopithecines – An Extinct Group of Human Ancestors: My Scientific Interest in South Africa
• Creator:
  Kaszycka, Katarzyna A.
• Description:
  I introduce the subject of my research interest in South Africa - the australopithecines - a group of bipedal, small-brained and large-toothed creatures from the Plio-Pleistocene, from which the human genus arose. I then briefly discuss various topics of my research, concerning: (1) Taxonomic status and morphological description of the extinct human relative from the Kromdraai site (Australopithecus robustus); (2) Graphic reconstruction of the partial skull from Kromdraai – specimen numbered TM 1517; (3) Assessment of size sexual dimorphism of the South African australopithecines (Australopithecus robustus and Australopithecus africanus), which, in terms of facial features, was pronounced – being almost gorilla-sized; (4) Social behavior of a fossil hominid species from around 2 million years ago, which, in terms of the social structure, was most likely a multimale-multifemale one; and (5) An event from the history of paleoanthropology, concerning the content of the 1924/25 photographs of the Taung Child (Australopithecus africanus) - the first australopithecine skull discovered.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Katarzyna A. Kaszycka
• Date:
  2017.06.27
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Werkwinkel; Vol. 12 No. 1 (2017); 7-17;
  Werkwinkel; Tom 12 Nr 1 (2017); 7-17;
  2719-2938;
  1896-3307
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/werk/article/view/werk-2017-0001/28420
• Subject:
  paleoanthropology;
  South Africa;
  australopiths;
  human evolution
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/werk/article/view/werk-2017-0001
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other