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- noun Plural form of
australopithecine .
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Examples
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At the same time, Mary did not want them classified as australopithecines.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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In it, he explained why he and White thought that all of the hominids from Laetoli and Hadar including Lucy belonged in one genus, and why these specimens should be described as australopithecines rather than early Homo.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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In it, he explained why he and White thought that all of the hominids from Laetoli and Hadar including Lucy belonged in one genus, and why these specimens should be described as australopithecines rather than early Homo.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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At the same time, Mary did not want them classified as australopithecines.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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No one gets exactly what he wants, not unless living among Lucy and the australopithecines is your idea of a good time.
Battlestar Galactica is dead; long live Battlestar Galactica « The Retort 2009
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Before now, scholars believed that the australopithecines were our earliest-known ancestors, our family lines diverging 3 million years ago.
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Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2-million-year-old relative Homo erectus-but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.
doggdot.us 2008
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Then the scientists noticed the ridge in a pitted, yellowed skull of our 2-million-year-old relative Homo erectus-but not in older hominids known as australopithecines, who walked the earth as far back as 4.4 million years ago.
doggdot.us 2008
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Speakers will share the insights they have gained through their field work and cover a broad range of topics, from our earliest ape-like ancestors to hominids such as australopithecines, Homo erectus and Neanderthals.
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Speakers will share the insights they have gained through their field work and cover a broad range of topics, from our earliest ape-like ancestors to hominids such as australopithecines, Homo erectus and Neanderthals.
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