Early Hominid

PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS

The Earliest Hominid That Lived

Paranthropus robustus earliest hominid that lived about 2 million years ago and was not a direct ancestor of modern man (Hilton 2002).

It is now believed that the males had a long time of puberty, and probably lived a life similar to that of modern gorillas (BBC 2000).

Noorderlicht, leading Dutch research blog reports that the British anthropologist Charles Lockwood and his team compared the fragments of skull and teeth of 35 individuals Paranthropus robustus (also sometimes referred to as Australopithecus robustus) (Hilton 2002). All these bones were found in Swartkrans, South Africa. They found ...