Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An australopith.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to the genus
Australopithecus . - noun any of several extinct humanlike small-brained bipedal primates of the genus Australopithecus; they existed from 1 to 4 million years ago.
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- noun taxonomy, archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology Any of several
extinct hominid primates , of the genusAustralopithecus , from thePleistocene period. - adjective taxonomy, archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology Of or pertaining to these creatures
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus
- noun any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago
Etymologies
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Examples
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4 Today both the canine and molar are classified as australopithecine.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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4 Today both the canine and molar are classified as australopithecine.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Homo, only the small cranial capacity being really an "australopithecine" feature.
COSMOS magazine - The science of everything Jacqui 2010
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"The new 'australopithecine' is actually a new species of
COSMOS magazine - The science of everything Jacqui 2010
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Homo, only the small cranial capacity being really an "australopithecine" feature, "he commented.
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Working with Sang-Hee Lee of the University of California, Caspari studied collections of fossils from different periods of human evolution, including early australopithecine apemen, Neanderthals and the first Homo sapiens to reach Europe.
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After referring to a quote by Berger that the small brain size of sediba an australopithecine feature is similar to that of the Flores Hobbit, AIG says that:
Australopithecus sediba and the creationist response - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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For you to assert that, then you would be ignoring the pioneering work of Raymond Dart who found the first australopithecine fossil in South Africa, the Leakeys and quite a few others:
Common ancestry passes another test. News at 11. - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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When I was in college, we had been taught that this long-dead australopithecine child must have been killed by an ancient leopard.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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However, the authors argued that the overall body plan was australopithecine, and hence put it in that genus.
Australopithecus sediba and the creationist response - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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