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    The australopithecines, formally Australopithecina or Hominina, are generally any species in the related genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. It...
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    Australopithecina, which sometimes also includes Ardipithecus, though the term "australopithecine" is sometimes used to refer only to members of Australopithecus. Species...
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    synonymous with Australopithecus. They are also referred to as the robust australopithecines. They lived between approximately 2.9 and 1.2 million years ago (mya)...
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  • Australopithecus bahrelghazali is an extinct species of australopithecine discovered in 1995 at Koro Toro, Bahr el Gazel, Chad, existing around 3.5 million...
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    source includes chimpanzees. Humans are the only extant species in the Australopithecine branch (subtribe), which also contains many extinct close relatives...
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    bones of Australopithecus (later this attribution was widened to australopithecines or other early hominins). The pebble and all its markings are formed...
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    paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson...
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    gracile as opposed to robust australopithecine). According to Koenigswald (1973) both robust and gracile australopithecine traits can be found in Sangiran...
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    Australopithecus sediba is an extinct species of australopithecine recovered from Malapa Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. It is known from a partial...
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    Paranthropus boisei is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago. The holotype specimen...
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    and is based largely on assuming a similar anatomy to the earlier australopithecines. Because of this, it has also been proposed H. habilis be moved to...
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    or beyond the range of variation for australopithecines in regard to these features. Multiple australopithecine species may have coexisted by foraging...
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  • she-demon and alternatively first wife of Adam Lucy, an early female australopithecine that lived 3.2 million years ago Wives aboard Noah's Ark, the first...
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    that make anthropologists believe that SK 847 is not part of the australopithecine group. SK 847 has a relatively short and narrow face, pronounced brow...
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    on these), three Monoliths are discovered in the Solar System by australopithecines and their human descendants. The characters' responses to their discoveries...
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    (including the Australopithecine and Panina subtribes) parted from the Gorillini tribe (gorillas) between 8 and 9 mya; Australopithecine (including the...
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    Paranthropus robustus is a species of robust australopithecine from the Early and possibly Middle Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa...
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    Australopithecus africanus is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to...
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    the importance of this for the emergence of Homo erectus from its australopithecine ancestors, including the production of stone tools and eventually...
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    and Homo. However, the specimen's anatomy strongly diverges from australopithecines and more closely aligns with Homo: the mental foramina are not located...
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    paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Lucy is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago. The skeleton presents...
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    Last common ancestors Chimpanzee–human Gorilla–human Orangutan–human Gibbon–human Australopithecines Humans and proto-humans (Homo)...
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    Johanson, and is one of the most complete and best-preserved adult Australopithecine fossils ever uncovered. Lucy's taxonomic name refers to the region...
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  • who is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region, psychologist John B....
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    humans and Neanderthals. Several features distinguish H. ergaster from australopithecines as well as earlier and more basal species of Homo, such as H. habilis...
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    the earliest known robust hominid ancestor and the oldest robust australopithecine discovered to date. The prominence of the crest appears to have been...
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    Last common ancestors Chimpanzee–human Gorilla–human Orangutan–human Gibbon–human Australopithecines Humans and proto-humans (Homo)...
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    during the Paleolithic period, when the hominins developed from the australopithecines in Africa and eventually into modern Homo sapiens. Archaeology also...
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    female chimpanzee brain; it is somewhat smaller than the brain of australopithecines like Lucy (400 to 550 cm3) and slightly over a fifth the size of the...
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    Discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus' a species of Hominin classified as an australopithecine of the genus Ardipithecus. A. kadabba was considered to be a subspecies...
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