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Paranthropus boisei




















Image sourced by myself from the Anthropology lab at Oxford Brookes University. 


This image is of a Paranthropus boisei, which lived about 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago Eastern Africa. This shows us the development of human eating and is commonly known for heavy chewing. (Smithsonian. 2022).

Due to the different development of the face to previous hominins, this meant that the Paranthropus boisei developed to have larger teeth, four times bigger than humans today, due to their larger cheek bones. It has gained the name "nutcracker man" due to this feature. (Smithsonian. 2022).


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Image sourced from Lillyundfreya (2017) The History of Our Tribe '18. Paranthropus boisei'. 

This image highlights to modern day humans what our ancestors appeared like and the crucial role they played in our development, such as the fact that they had such a broad range on earth and survived for a million years.

They were much smaller than the modern day human, with a male Paranthropus boisei averaging height at 137cm and the females averaging at 124cm. It has also been highlighted that the reason as to why Paranthropus boisei died out was due to its inability to adapt to the changing environment. This is when the earth was undergoing times of intense heat and cold. (Welker, 2017). 



References: 

Barbara Helm Welker (2017). The History of Our Tribe: Homini. 18. Paranthropus boisei. 

Lillyundfreya (2017) The History of Our Tribe '18. Paranthropus boisei'. 

Smithsonian (July 2022). National Museum of Natural History. 'What does it mean to be human?'. 








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