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Australopithecus
(redirected from Gracile australopithecine)

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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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It is said that this red haired bipedal creature may be a surviving species of the Gracile Australopithecine ?
Agogwe - the Human like Biped by Robert Benjamin / News, opinion and commentary community
This cerebral radiator -- represented in fossils by grooves in cranial bones and openings for emissary veins -- expanded as brain size increased in gracile australopithecines and the Homo lineage, while small-brained Hadar hominids and robust australopithecines lacked the cooling network of veins.
The great brain drain: a controversial theory takes ancestral brain ... by Bower, Bruce / Science News
 
 
 
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