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What is the Australopithecus?

Answer 1

Australopithecus is generic name for a group of African fossil apes who started walking upright, about 6 million years ago. The genus is regarded as a 'missing link' between fossil apes and genus Homo .

Australopithecus means southern ape: as the first fossil discovery was made in 1924 in Taung, South Africa. Later a number of fossils of same genus were unearthed from East Africa as well.

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Australopithecines evolved in two distinct forms: one omnivorous, gracile and lighter while the other herbivorous and robust. Former is considered to be ancestral to genus Homo , and is represented by a famous fossil, named Lucy (https://tutor.hix.ai).

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Answer 2

Easton Bailey

Australopithecus is an extinct genus of hominins that lived in Africa around 4 to 2 million years ago.

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