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Anthropologist Donald Johanson at Arizona State, who discovered the 3. 2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton from a more primitive species called australopithecus afarensis that has come to symbolize human evolution, considered the new species a parallel offshoot of the human line rather than a direct human ancestor.
New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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Anthropologist Donald Johanson at Arizona State, who discovered the 3. 2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton from a more primitive species called australopithecus afarensis that has come to symbolize human evolution, considered the new species a parallel offshoot of the human line rather than a direct human ancestor.
New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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Anthropologist Donald Johanson at Arizona State, who discovered the 3. 2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton from a more primitive species called australopithecus afarensis that has come to symbolize human evolution, considered the new species a parallel offshoot of the human line rather than a direct human ancestor.
New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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Anthropologist Donald Johanson at Arizona State, who discovered the 3. 2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton from a more primitive species called australopithecus afarensis that has come to symbolize human evolution, considered the new species a parallel offshoot of the human line and not a direct human ancestor.
Fossil Discovery Offers New Look at Evolution Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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Your momma was an an australopithecus and your daddy was a tapeworm.
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The three-and-a-half-year-old Taung child is the type specimen of the human ancestor species australopithecus africanus and the first early human ancestor fossil to be discovered in Africa.
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“I think our new discoveries confirm the view that australopithecus was an offshoot of the hominid line, a contemporary of early man who died out,” she said.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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“I think our new discoveries confirm the view that australopithecus was an offshoot of the hominid line, a contemporary of early man who died out,” she said.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Not to mention there were hominids far before australopithecus, such as Sahelthropus tchadensis.
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In my teens, I tried to write a science fiction story about a distant future in which certain primates had evolved to somewhere around the level of australopithecus, and the ethical problems we future humans (which I illustrated as bald and bulging headed) faced in dealing with them.
Planet Atheism 2009
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