feb 9, 3950000 BC - Australopithecus

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Fact One : The Australopithecus were bipedal.
Fact Two : The Australopithecus had a shorter childhood.
Fact Three : Australopithecus were becoming less chimp like.


Claim : The Australopithecus has a smaller brain. I know this because the Australopithecus doesn't have a forehead which means that it does not have to have extra room for the brain.



MIgration Path : The Australopithecus mostly stayed in eastern africa mostly in the middle of eastern africa but some moved higher than the middle.





Source 1: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/2002projects/web/australopithecus/austro.html
Source 2: http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/australopithecus-afarensis

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