P. robustus - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm an extinct hominid that walked eastern and southern Africa from about 2 million to 1 million years ago. My claim to fame is the fact that my cranial features and dentition are so damn robust. I have large flared zygomatic arches, huge molars that were used for grinding seeds, nuts, and other rough material, a low forehead, low amount of cranial vaulting, and a sagittal crest that runs the length of my skull. My massive jaw muscles needed somewhere to attach, ergo my saggital crest, which I might add, the ladies love. My cranial capacity was around 530 mL, which is kinda low, I know. Don't laugh. It's embarrassing to admit to you big headed hominids. Me and my fellow robusts were about 4ft 6 inches tall in males, to about 3ft 7 inches in the ladies. We ranged anywhere in weight from 88 pounds in males to 70 pounds in the ladies of our group. I guess you could consider us scavengers, and we like to roam around a lot looking for some good food to munch on. I definitely enjoy the carcass of an antelope or the occasional zebra, that is if we can get the big mean lions away from it. Because my large jaw muscles (temporalis muscles) needed to attach at my saggital crest my zygomatics flare outward, and I also have quite a big of post-orbital constriction. My face is kinda flattish as a results, but that hasn't made me any less popular with the ladies. My forehead is relatively flat as well, and we had relatively small snouts too. All in all, I'd say I'm a pretty cool robust guy.

My Interests

I like taking long walks on the savannah in eastern Africa, and watching the sun go down on the horizon. I like to climb trees sometimes, but I enjoy being bipedal, so I really like long walks on the plains of Africa. My primary interests are looking for food, which I like to eat lots of tubers, and seeds and nuts. These teeth weren't made this robust for nothin'. I eat meat sometimes too, when I can get it, because I mostly scavenge. Always enjoy a hot reproductive time with a good lookin' lady too.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet any good lookin' robust ladies out there, as I've been pretty lonely for a couple million years, and now that I'm out of the ground I'm on the prowl. It's been so long I'd even take a P. boisei or a good lookin' P. aethiopicus. Other than that, any cool hominids that want to be friends with a cool, laid-back robust guy are welcome.

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Music:

I like listening to the music of the birds in the trees of eastern and southern Africa, and the hooting of my primate cousins (the one's still in the trees) is also fun to listen to. The sound of Africa in the evening time is the best music indeed. The one sound that truly frightens is the sounds of the lions.

Movies:

I was around quite a few years before the advent of movies, but I hear they're pretty cool, though I don't know I'd understand what was going on too much, as I probably wouldn't understand a highly developed thing you humans call language.

Television:

Again my time was a little before the advent of television.

Books:

We didn't develop a symbolic system known as language, and we certainly didn't know what 'paper' was in my day, so naturally we didn't have access to very many books a million or two years ago. In fact I don't understand language at all, and this human buddy of mine helped me out with this myspace page.

Heroes:

Robert Broom, because he found my fossil bones down in South Africa at Kromdraai, and since being out of the ground I can even make a myspace page and hopefully make new friends.