genus Australopithecus

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genus 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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The earliest members of the hominin genus Australopithecus have remained poorly understood, because of the near absence of cranial remains older than 3.5 million years.

Researchers find fossilised skull of early human

The earliest members of the hominin genus Australopithecus have remained poorly understood, because of the near-absence of cranial remains older than 3.5m years.

3,800,000-year-old skull a 'game-changer' in evolution

Through high resolution scanning, the researchers were able to quantitatively and non-invasively explore fine details of the inner anatomy of the Jacovec specimen and to report previously unknown information about the genus Australopithecus.