Australopithecus garhi
Partial Skull BOH-VP-12/130 - 2.5 Million Years Ago
No reproduction of the skull is currently available
This type of specimen was discovered by Yohannes Haile-Selassie in Bouri Ethiopia in 1997 and described as a species in 1999. Its cranial capacity of 450 cc is similar to other australopithecines. Its prognathic face, sagittal crest for anchoring chewing muscles, and certain aspects of its dentition (although some more advanced) are primitive characteristics akin to those of A. afarensis from which it may have evolved. Although its position on the hominid evolutionary tree remains unclear, because of the date of the fossil, it is considered a potential direct ancestor of modern humans representing an evolutionary link between australopithecines and the genus Homo.
- Hominin Skulls - Select a Species
- Ardipithecus kadabba
- Ardipithecus ramidus
- Australopithecus afarensis
- Australopithecus africanus
- Australopithecus anamensis
- Australopithecus garhi
- Australopithecus sediba
- Denisovans
- Homo antecessor
- Homo erectus
- Homo floresiensis
- Homo habilis
- Homo heidelbergensis
- Homo naledi
- Homo neanderthalensis
- Homo rudolfensis
- Homo sapiens
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Ororrin tugenensis
- Paranthropus aethiopicus
- Paranthropus boisei
- Paranthropus robustus
- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
