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genus Australopithecus

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Noun1.genus Australopithecus - extinct genus of African hominidgenus Australopithecus - extinct genus of African hominid    
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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Ardi lived a million years before the famous Lucy, the previous earliest skeleton of a hominid who was also found in Ethiopia's Afar region, and was of the more human-like genus Australopithecus.
Scientists unearth oldest human remains in Ethiopia by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
Lucy, whose partial skeleton was discovered 20 years earlier just 45 miles away, thrived a million years after Ardi and was of the more human-like genus Australopithecus.
Hello, Mum! ARDI OUSTS LUCY AS OUR 1st ANCESTOR by The Mirror (London, England)
Goodman's controversial theory also folds other ancient apelike ancestors into the Homo lineage, including the 3-million- to 4-million-year-old genus Australopithecus.
Humanity's pedestal lowered again? (Anthropology) by Science News
 
 
 
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