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  • The term P. africanus is now used to describe certain Miocene ape fossils from Koru and Songhor.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The term P. africanus is now used to describe certain Miocene ape fossils from Koru and Songhor.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Study author Sandi Copeland and her team studied teeth from a group of extinct Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus individuals from two adjacent cave systems in South Africa, finding that more than half of the female teeth were from outside the local area.

    Even ancient men seemed to like their man caves 2011

  • Mystery bird: yellow-billed oxpecker, Buphagus africanus

    High doses of common painkillers increase stroke risk, warn researchers 2011

  • Paleoanthropologist Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington suspects the sediba pair represent the last descendants of the "Australopithecus africanus" hominids that arose around 2.8 million years ago, rather than a predecessor of modern humans.

    Fossils offer 'window' into human evolution 2010

  • Study author Sandi Copeland and her team studied teeth from a group of extinct Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus individuals from two adjacent cave systems in South Africa, finding that more than half of the female teeth were from outside the local area.

    Even ancient men seemed to like their man caves 2011

  • Five fossil human skulls show how the shape of the face and braincase of early humans changed over the past 2.5 million years. (from left to right: Australopithecus africanus, 2.5 million years old; Homo rudolfensis, 1.9 million years old; Homo erectus, ~ 1 million years old; Homo heidelbergensis, ~350,000 years old; Homo sapiens, ~ 4,800 years old)

    Smithsonian human origins exhibit elicits awe, protests 2010

  • Republicans -- like their mascot the elephant, loxodonata africanus -- are herd animals and understand protecting the tribe is their number one priority.

    Will Durst: Swamp Drainage Detritus 2010

  • Republicans -- like their mascot the elephant, loxodonata africanus -- are herd animals and understand protecting the tribe is their number one priority.

    Will Durst: Swamp Drainage Detritus 2010

  • Au. sediba is most similar to, and quite likely descended from, Au. africanus.

    Australopithecus sediba and the creationist response - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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