Extinct hominid from the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago
Australopithecus garhi
Temporal range: Gelasian, 2.6–2.5 Ma
Reconstruction of the skull at the National Museum of Ethiopia
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Primates
Suborder:
Haplorhini
Infraorder:
Simiiformes
Family:
Hominidae
Subfamily:
Homininae
Tribe:
Hominini
Genus:
†Australopithecus
Species:
†A. garhi
Binomial name
†Australopithecus garhi
Asfaw et al., 1997
Australopithecus garhi is a species of australopithecine from the Bouri Formation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago (mya) during the Early Pleistocene. The first remains were described in 1999 based on several skeletal elements uncovered in the three years preceding. A. garhi was originally considered to have been a direct ancestor to Homo and the human line, but is now thought to have been an offshoot. Like other australopithecines, A. garhi had a brain volume of 450 cc (27 cu in); a jaw which jutted out (prognathism); relatively large molars and premolars; adaptations for both walking on two legs (bipedalism) and grasping while climbing (arboreality); and it is possible that, though unclear if, males were larger than females (exhibited sexual dimorphism). One individual, presumed female based on size, may have been 140 cm (4 ft 7 in) tall.
A. garhi is the first pre-Homo hominin postulated to have manufactured tools—using them in butchering—and may be counted among a growing body of evidence for pre-Homo stone tool industries (the ability to manufacture tools was previously believed to have separated Homo from predecessors.) A. garhi possibly produced the Oldowan industry which was previously considered to have been invented by the later H. habilis, though this may have instead been produced by contemporary Homo.
Australopithecusgarhi is a species of australopithecine from the Bouri Formation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago (mya) during...
humans), Paranthropus, and Kenyanthropus evolved from some Australopithecus species. Australopithecus is a member of the subtribe Australopithecina, which sometimes...
Phulgran, misspelling of Ghari Phulgran Garhi may also refer to: Australopithecusgarhi, a gracile australopithecine species whose fossils were discovered...
Several species, including Australopithecusgarhi, Australopithecus sediba, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus afarensis, have been proposed...
Australopithecus (Zinjanthropus) boisei in 1964, but in 1967, South African palaeoanthropologist Phillip V. Tobias subsumed it into Australopithecus as...
sister taxa deriving from Australopithecus, but the classification of Australopithecus species is in disarray. Australopithecus is considered a grade taxon...
Oldowan tools. Its emergence is often associated with the species Australopithecusgarhi and its flourishing with early species of Homo such as H. habilis...
tree-climbing arms. Australopithecusgarhi was discovered by Tim White in the Bouri Peninsula area of Middle Awash. It was announced in 1999. Au. Garhi has a holotype...
media related to Australopithecus africanus. Wikispecies has information related to Australopithecus africanus. MNSU Australopithecus africanus - The Smithsonian...
Australopithecus sediba is an extinct species of australopithecine recovered from Malapa Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. It is known from a partial...
contemporaries of Australopithecus boisei. Homo erectus remains were found in the upper portions of Bed II, making them contemporaries of Australopithecus boisei...
whether H. habilis was the first hominin to use stone tools, as Australopithecusgarhi, dated to c. 2.5 Mya, has been found along with stone tool implements...
used by australopithecine forebears of the genus Homo (such as Australopithecusgarhi). However, even older tools were later discovered at the single...
juvenile specimen (face and brain endocast), which he named Australopithecus africanus (Australopithecus meaning "Southern Ape"). Although the brain was small...
Congo. At present, the classification of Australopithecus and Paranthropus species is in disarray. Australopithecus is considered a grade taxon whose members...
of LD 350-1 to be 2.80–2.75 Ma". Bouri Vertebrate Paleontology "Australopithecusgarhi: BOU-VP-12/130". efossils. Retrieved 13 June 2016. http://humanorigins...
invalid grouping and is synonymous with Australopithecus, so the species is also often classified as Australopithecus aethiopicus. Whatever the case, it is...
made the Pliocene tools remains unknown. Fragments of Australopithecusgarhi, Australopithecus aethiopicus, and Homo, possibly Homo habilis, have been...
invalid grouping and synonymous with Australopithecus, so the species is also often classified as Australopithecus boisei. Robust australopithecines are...
species first developed them, with some speculating that it was Australopithecusgarhi, and others believing that it was in fact Homo habilis. Homo habilis...
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