Researchers call this female skeleton “Issa,” which means ‘protector’ in Swahili, after she was found at Malapa Cave, in the self-proclaimed Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. The study was based on two discoveries of ‘lumbar vertebrae from the lower backs’ of a male and female Australopithecus sediba.Īccording to a New York University release, in 2008, Professor Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand and his son, Matthew, first discovered the two million years old fossilized spine of the new species of ancient human relatives. The team of researchers from New York University, the University of the Witwatersrand, and 15 other academic institutions around the world, published their findings in the open access journal e-Life. (© NYU & Wits University ) Discovered In Africa’s ‘Cradle Of Humankind’, Of course Birthing Trauma Comes from Two Million Years of Walking UprightĪustralopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae (colored) which is the spinal missing link, along with other skeletal remains from the species.Evidence Suggests Human Ancestor Walked Upright In Trees.sediba used its upper limbs to climb trees and cliffs, while their lower limbs powered them along, walking like humans. Now, a new paper shows that this early hominin was like a cat, being a master of both vertical and horizontal planes. The argument had always been whether Australopithecus sediba could both walk and climb trees, or not. Is this the missing link Darwin dreamed of?Ī collection of two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae from an early human relative, discovered in Africa, has finally put to bed a long outstanding anthropological debate. Unlike anything presented before, their new study shows how the ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, 'walked like a human, but climbed like an ape'. A team of scientists has analyzed a set of two-million-year-old so-called ‘missing link’ fossils.
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