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Australopithecus
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Noun1.Australopithecus - extinct genus of African hominidAustralopithecus - 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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Australopithicus afarensis This species, the southern ape from Afar (an area in Ethiopia), is best known by the skeleton Lucy, discovered in 1974 by US palaeontologist Don Johanson.
The ages of man by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
This logical condition carries with it a critical narrowing of options (evolution does not proceed from an adult Australopithicus afarensis to an adult Homo sapiens) while simultaneously providing for an ample sample.
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