They were not sure that the three-inch skull fragment from Kenya was from an early Homo or an australopithecine.
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Reduced availability of fruits stimulated some proto-australopithecines to search out new food sources found in the drier savannah ecology.
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It and its neighbouring sites have produced some of the earliest examples of fossilised human and australopithecine remains and stone tools.
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So it is not inconceivable that the earlier australopithecines could have been using tools even before 2.6 million years ago.
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The oldest stone tools ever found, 2.6 million years old, are thought to be the work of Australopithecines.
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Within it every human being that ever lived, from the first australopithecine to the last posthuman, has been inexplicably resurrected.
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With the discovery of the Piltdown specimen, actual fossil specimens of the prehistoric australopithecine genus coming from Africa were being ignored.
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Studies of Australopithecine diets through dental microwear showed that they were largely frugivorous but there is some archaeological evidence for meat consumption.
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Among the fossil hominids examined by the team, the australopithecines have ape-like proportions, and Homo erectus resembles modern humans.
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There is some evidence that the australopithecines ( 4 Ma ) may have used broken bones as tools, but this is debated.
