The australopithecines, formally Australopithecina or Hominina, are generally any species in the related genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. It...

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

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)...

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

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

she-demon and alternatively first wife of Adam Lucy, an early female australopithecine that lived 3.2 million years ago Wives aboard Noah's Ark, the first...

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

with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb, the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

that make anthropologists believe that SK 847 is not part of the australopithecine group. SK 847 has a relatively short and narrow face, pronounced brow...

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...

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

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

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

who is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region, psychologist John B....

the importance of this for the emergence of Homo erectus from its australopithecine ancestors, including the production of stone tools and eventually...

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

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...

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

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

during the Paleolithic period, when the hominins developed from the australopithecines in Africa and eventually into modern Homo sapiens. Archaeology also...

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

Australopithecus garhi is a species of australopithecine from the Bouri Formation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago (mya) during...

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...

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