How do australopithecus and neanderthal differ?

Australopithecus is name of the group of apes that (very likely) included an ancestor of humans that lived in sub-Saharan Africa between 4.1 and 1.8 million years ago. read more

Australopithecus is name of the group of apes that (very likely) included an ancestor of humans that lived in sub-Saharan Africa between 4.1 and 1.8 million years ago. Neanderthals is a kind of human that lived as a distinguished species that lived in Eurasia between 350,000 and 40,000 years ago. read more

One of the key physiological differences between early humans (Homos) and Australopithecines was adult cranial capacity. On average, early humans had brains that were about 35 percent larger than Australopithecus africanus, who is widely considered to be one of two possible immediate ancestors of early humans — the other is Australopithecus garhi. read more