The Skull of Australopithecus afarensis (Series in Human Evolution)
Series: Human Evolution
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 13, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780195157062
First sentence: Australopithecus afarensis is a fossil hominin species known from at least four East African Rift Valley sites ranging from northern Ethiopia in the north to northern Tanzania in the south and bridging the time period between approximately 3.6 and 3.0 million years ago (Ma) (see figure 1.1)