What is a synonym for "australopithecus"?

Common synonyms include: man, prehistoric man, primate.

Australopithecus

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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
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"

"Australopithecus was an ancestor of humans."

From the genus name Australopithecus.