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Holdings: 35mm slide: 11323
Date of Photo: 1965
World Region: Old World
Description: Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Australopithecus: Ramapithecus and this early form of Australopithecus, the first certain hominid, are seperated by a gap of nine million years. In this time, the prehumans made great advances - they walked upright, lived on the ground and may have used stones in their defense; Paranthropus: though he stood erect and had hominid features, Paranthropus represents an evolutionary dead end in man's ancestry. A vegeta
Image Categories: Fossil hominids/ Physical Anthropology: Australopithecine; Fossil hominids/ Physical Anthropology: Other; Text/Graphic/Model: Reconstruction
Source Type Detail: Book Citation: "Early Man," by F. Clark Howell and the Editors of LIFE; p. 43. New York: Time Inc., 1965.

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Full citation: "Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Australopithecus: Ramapithecus and this early form of Australopithecus, the first certain hominid, are seperated by a gap of nine million years. In this time, the prehumans made great advances - they walked upright, lived on the ground and may have used stones in their defense; Paranthropus: though he stood erect and had hominid features, Paranthropus represents an evolutionary dead end in man's ancestry. A vegeta". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-17266/17266. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 24, 2024.