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genus Australopithecus

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Noun1.genus Australopithecusgenus 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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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
Kenyanthropus would have existed at the same time as the well-established hominid genus Australopithecus.
Our family tree does the splits ... (Anthropology) by Science News
afarensis was seen by many paleoanthropologists as leading, in one direction, through three progressively larger species: africanus, robustus and boisei, which marked the end of the genus Australopithecus.
Skull gives hominid evolution new face by Bower, Bruce / Science News
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