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The fossil has been studied by scientists from many countries around the world, and within 50 years, scientists have confirmed a finding implied by the name "Plesianthropus", meaning "almost human".
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‘Southern ape’ might be a lousy name but no matter: it predates the much more sensible Plesianthropus and we seem to be stuck with it, unless . . .
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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One might have hoped that, when later taxonomists decided that Mrs Ples and her kind were really of the same genus as the Taung Child, Plesianthropus would have become the name for all of them.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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‘Southern ape’ might be a lousy name but no matter: it predates the much more sensible Plesianthropus and we seem to be stuck with it, unless . . .
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Mrs Ples, who may actually have been a small male rather than a large female, obtained ‘her’ nickname because she was originally classified in the genus Plesianthropus.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Mrs Ples, who may actually have been a small male rather than a large female, obtained ‘her’ nickname because she was originally classified in the genus Plesianthropus.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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One might have hoped that, when later taxonomists decided that Mrs Ples and her kind were really of the same genus as the Taung Child, Plesianthropus would have become the name for all of them.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The various forms of australopithecines, such as Paranthropus and Plesianthropus, were divided into two categories: Australopithecus robustus, for the large-skulled species, and Australopithecus africanus, for the more delicate form.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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The various forms of australopithecines, such as Paranthropus and Plesianthropus, were divided into two categories: Australopithecus robustus, for the large-skulled species, and Australopithecus africanus, for the more delicate form.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Obviously, when Mrs Ples’s name was changed from Plesianthropus to Australopithecus, nothing changed in the real world at all.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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