Australopithecus Males Were Much Larger than Females, Paleoanthropologist Says

Forensic facial reconstruction of another Australopithecus species - A. afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two extinct hominins, Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus, were significantly more dimorphic than chimpanzees and modern humans; Australopithecus afarensis were also significantly more dimorphic than Australopithecus africanus, according to Dr. Adam Gordon, a paleoanthropologist at the University at Albany and Durham University.

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