Australopithecus 
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Who were they and where did they originate?

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8932/africanus.html

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/afarensis/afarensis-a.html

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/A/Australo.asp

What was their lifestyle? (how did they survive?)

http://www.free-essays.us/dbase/a4/myv90.shtml

http://whyfiles.org/083isotope/3.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/566187.stm

When did they live?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/f.html

http://www.msu.edu/~heslipst/contents/ANP440/africanus.htm

What event(s) caused their adaptation from tree dwellers to bipedalism?

http://whyfiles.org/083isotope/3.html

http://bruceowen.com/introbiological/20104s2.htm

http://home.insight.rr.com/jkmckee/taung.htm

http://www.masai-mara.com/mmmaa.htm

What happened to Australopithecus?

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566394_6/Human_Evolution.html (Paragraph D4)

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/faq/Encarta/australopiths.htm (last paragraph)

The following vocabulary words should be defined and used in your written paper where appropriate:

Evolution

Fossils

Hominids

Carrion

Fauna

Flora

Forage

Nomadic

Omnivorous

Savanna

Bipedal

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