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