Australopithecus

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of australopith.

    "In its turn the institute received from the British Museum of Natural History plaster casts of the skulls of Australopithecuses, a species of higher ape which lived over a million years ago."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Australopithecus. alt-of

    "The Ramapithecus line divided into two australopitheci which also died out, and the ancestor of modern man, which gradually evolved into Homo sapiens"

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australopithgenus australopithecusmanprehistoric manprimate

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"Australopithecus was an ancestor of humans."

Etymology

From the genus name Australopithecus.

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