Where Was Australopithecus Sediba Found?

History of Discovery:
The first specimen of Australopithecus sediba, the right clavicle of MH1, was discovered on the 15th of August in 2008 by Matthew Berger, son of paleoanthropologist Lee Berger from the University of Witwatersrand, at the site of Malapa, South Africa. It was announced in Science in April 2010.

Where was Australopithecus found?

Since the discovery of the Taung specimen, many hundreds of specimens from roughly eight species of Australopithecus have been discovered in South Africa (A. africanus, A. sediba), eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania; A. anamensis, A.

When did the Australopithecus sediba live?

Australopithecus sediba, extinct primate species that inhabited southern Africa beginning about 1.98 million years ago and that shares several morphological characteristics in common with the hominin genus Homo.

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