Paranthropus is characterised by robust skulls, with a prominent gorilla -like sagittal crest along the midline—which suggest strong chewing muscles—and broad, herbivorous teeth used for grinding. However, they likely preferred soft food over tough and hard food.

2024年1月3日 · Robust species like Paranthropus robustus had large teeth as well as a ridge on top of the skull, where strong chewing muscles attached. These features allowed individuals to crush and grind hard foods such as nuts, seeds, roots, and tubers in the back of the jaw; however, P. robustus didn’t just eat tough foods.

Robust australopithecines—as opposed to gracile australopithecines—are characterised by heavily built skulls capable of producing high stresses and bite forces, as well as inflated cheek teeth (molars and premolars). Males had more heavily built skulls than females.

2015年2月27日 · When talking about the robust morphology of fossil specimens, such as the Neandertals and H. erectus, it is often the skull that is referred to, but the postcranial bones also exhibit robusticity. The first question to tackle is why there are differences between robust skulls, such as those of Neandertals and H. erectus.

They are characterized by several features of the skull that give them a "robust" appearance when compared to other, more gracile hominins. The most notable of these features are large, thickly...

This is the most complete "robust" australopithecine skull ever discovered and is considered to be a rare female of this species. DNH 7 was recovered from the DNH 7 or Eurydice Block in the Central Excavation Area of the site, which consists of …

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2025年2月7日 · These features make the skulls of the robusts look very different from those of modern humans. Robert Broom recovered the first specimen of a robust australopith in 1938 from the South African cave site of Kromdraai. He gave it the name Paranthropus robustus and noted its hominin features as well as its exaggerated chewing apparatus.

SK-48, formerly called Paranthropus crassidens, greatly increased what is known about australopithecines. The Transvaal cave site where it was found was blasted by explosives but, remarkably, the skull survived. The skull was found with the right canine, the first premolar and all three molars intact.

The species name robustus, Latin for ‘strongly built’, refers to its large, thick skull and jaw bones. One of the most complete early hominin skulls found from this time period, this skull is also the first from a single individual of the Paranthropus sp. …