The australopithecines (/ɔːˈstreɪloʊˈpɪθəsaɪnz/), formally Australopithecina or Hominina, are generally any species in the related genera of Australopithecus...

Australopithecina, which sometimes also includes Ardipithecus, though the term "australopithecine" is sometimes used to refer only to members of Australopithecus. Species...

source includes chimpanzees. Humans are the only extant species in the Australopithecine branch (subtribe), which also contains many extinct close relatives...

synonymous with Australopithecus. They are also referred to as the robust australopithecines. They lived between approximately 2.9 and 1.2 million years ago (mya)...

Hominins (including the Australopithecine and Panina subtribes) parted from the Gorillini tribe between 8 and 9 mya; Australopithecine (including the extinct...

He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson...

bones of Australopithecus (later this attribution was widened to australopithecines or other early hominins). The pebble and all its markings are formed...

Australopithecus africanus is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to...

or beyond the range of variation for australopithecines in regard to these features. Multiple australopithecine species may have coexisted by foraging...

on these), three Monoliths are discovered in the Solar System by australopithecines and their human descendants. The characters' responses to their discoveries...

Australopithecus sediba is an extinct species of australopithecine recovered from Malapa Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. It is known from a partial...

Australopithecus bahrelghazali is an extinct species of australopithecine discovered in 1995 at Koro Toro, Bahr el Gazel, Chad, existing around 3.5 million...

Paranthropus robustus is a species of robust australopithecine from the Early and possibly Middle Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa...

gracile as opposed to robust australopithecine). According to Koenigswald (1973) both robust and gracile australopithecine traits can be found in Sangiran...

Paranthropus boisei is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago. The holotype specimen...

and is based largely on assuming a similar anatomy to the earlier australopithecines. Because of this, it has also been proposed H. habilis be moved to...

humans and Neanderthals. Several features distinguish H. ergaster from australopithecines as well as earlier and more basal species of Homo, such as H. habilis...

Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa...

Paranthropus aethiopicus is an extinct species of robust australopithecine from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.7–2.3 million...

approximately 1.9 million years ago (mya); then came a contemporary australopithecine, Paranthropus boisei, 1.8 mya, followed by Homo erectus, 1.2 mya....

Johanson, and is one of the most complete and best-preserved adult Australopithecine fossils ever uncovered. Lucy's taxonomic name refers to the region...

(písos) pisoid, pisolite pithec- ape, monkey Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos) australopithecine, Australopithecus, caenopithecine plac- plain, plate, tablet Greek...

paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Lucy is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago. The skeleton presents...

other manufactured artifacts. It was mostly undisputed that pre-human australopithecines did not have communication systems significantly different from those...

the earliest known robust hominid ancestor and the oldest robust australopithecine discovered to date. The prominence of the crest appears to have been...

Last common ancestors Chimpanzee–human Gorilla–human Orangutan–human Gibbon–human Australopithecines Humans and proto-humans (Homo)...

human fossils into three species of Homo: "H. transvaalensis" (the australopithecines), H. erectus (including "Sinanthropus", "Pithecanthropus", and various...

more open habitats where large forest trees were less common....The australopithecines did not differ from the modern chimpanzees in terms of brain size...

and Homo. However, the specimen's anatomy strongly diverges from australopithecines and more closely aligns with Homo: the mental foramina are not located...

account for the different body plans in Homo as opposed to apes or australopithecines". The hypothesis posits a significant role of endurance running in...