Giant and apelike in appearance, it would be easy to mistake Bigfoot for a hairy tree or NBA player. |
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The hominin fossil record does not include a truly intermediate form between an apelike and a humanlike body. |
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The scientists described the ancient hominoids as small-brained, tree-climbing, meat-eating midgets that were both apelike and human in appearance. |
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The bone fragments, thought to be 3.4 to 2.9 million years old, belong to Australopithecus afarensis, an apelike creature that may have been an ancestor of modern humans. |
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These bones, found with skull bones, are still apelike in some aspects, but it is almost certain that the individual from which they came had dexterous hands. |
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Hitherto, the explanation for this shift from the smaller skulls and wider pelvises of man's apelike ancestors has been a shift from a vegetable-based diet to a meat-based one. |
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In addition, the mosaic of humanlike and apelike characteristics displayed by these two specimens of A. sediba indicated that this species was unlike any other known hominin. |
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