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Australopithecus
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Noun1.AustralopithecusAustralopithecus - extinct genus of African hominid    
genus Australopithecus
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
family Hominidae, Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
australopithecine - any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago
Australopithecus afarensis - fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago
Lucy - incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974
Australopithecus africanus - gracile hominid of southern Africa; from about 3 million years ago
Australopithecus boisei - large-toothed hominid of eastern Africa; from 1 to 2 million years ago
Australopithecus robustus - large-toothed hominid of southern Africa; from 1.5 to 2 million years ago; formerly Paranthropus
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The latter portion of the book is dedicated to the human-fossil record, including that of pre-Australopithecines, Australopithecines, and Homo species.
From Lucy to Language by Science News
Ample evidence has shown that australopithecines were walking upright by this time, but the first traces of this skeleton - the four bones of an instep and beginning of the big toe - suggested that this species also was capable of grasping and climbing like a chimpanzee.
`MISSING LINK' BONES TURN UP IN S. AFRICA by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
This is reflected in the earliest of hominid societies, the australopithecines, from at least three-and-a-half million years ago.
Nationalism: hymns ancient and modern by Fox, Robin W. / The National Interest
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