Understanding our early (very, very early) ancestors is a key component to understanding human evolution. The Australopithecus genus has many different species within it. There are Australopithecus: aetipicus, garhi, africanus, robustus, and anamensis. All of these species played a big part in the evolution of humans. But Australopithecus robustus and anamensis could possible have played a bigger role than any of the other species. These are the two species that will be the focus of this paper. Australopithecus robustus and anamensis are extremely different from each other and the other four species, even though they are of the same genus. But yet even with their variations, they are still to a great extent alike.
Australopithecus anamensis is the “ oldest” of the Australopithecus genus dating back to about four million years ago. The first fossils of this species were found in 1965 in Lake Turkana on the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia in between two layers of volcanic ash.......
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