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US
/ɔˌstɹeɪɫoʊˈpɪθəˌsaɪn/
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NOUN
- any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago
ADJECTIVE
- of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus
How To Use australopithecine In A Sentence
- In an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
- 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
- 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
- And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.
- Least developed in the gorilla but greater in chimpanzees and australopithecines, with formation of incisive canal.
- They even hint at the possibility that no australopithecine species was ancestral to the genus Homo.
- Because in an upright biped, like humans and Australopithecines, the head is balanced on top of the spine, whereas in the quadruped like a chimpanzee the head is slung from the front of the spine.
- Homo, only the small cranial capacity being really an "australopithecine" feature. COSMOS magazine - The science of everything
- And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.
- Estimated at 1.5 to 2 million years old, the Drimolen fossils are mostly teeth that belonged to Paranthropus robustus australopithecines.
