Sediba's hand is unique because it has shortened fingers and a very long thumb, but at the same time very powerful muscles for grasping, making it a hand capable of tool manufacture and use, but still able to climb.
What We Can Learn from a 1.9-Million-Year-Old Hand
Fossils from Australopithecus sediba demonstrate "a surprisingly advanced but small brain, a very evolved hand with a long thumb like a human, a very modern pelvis, but a foot and ankle shape never seen in any hominin species that combines features of both apes and humans in one anatomical package," says Dr. Lee Berger of Wits University, Johannesburg
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South Africa: Is This 1.9-Million-Year-Old Hand That of An Early Human?
CoJ, 9 September 2011
THE delicate skeleton of the hand of the Australopithecus sediba - the most complete hand skeleton of an early hominin ever discovered - lay in professor Lee Berger's own… Read more »
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South Africa: Skeletons Present an Exquisite Paleo-Puzzle
Science, 9 September 2011
Starting on page 1402 of this week's issue of Science, researchers present two remarkably complete and well-preserved partial skeletons of a 2-million-year-old species called… Read more »
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South Africa: Paleoanthropologist Now Rides High On a New Fossil Tide
Science, 9 September 2011
This week, Science publishes five papers by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand and his colleagues, featuring details and analysis of the 2-million-year-old remains… Read more »
