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Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorrhini Superfamily: Hominoidea Family: Hominidae Subfamily: Homininae Tribe: Hominini Subtribe: Australopithecina Genus: Paranthropus Species: Paranthropus robustus
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Excavators were working on Member 1, at Swartkrans, when the victim was found. Member 1 dates to about 1.8 MYA and has yielded about 98 specimens of Australopithecus robustus. Added Later: Ms. Ples is not A. robustus so I am removing that part of the post. Here is a picture of A. robustus
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I am currently working on a post for Transitions involving the molecular evidence for the common ancestry of apes and humans (Note: this is slow going because I am having trouble finding websites with age appropriate discussions of this material – if you know of any let me know as I hate doing posts without [...]
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This is pretty cool. Researchers examined several species of monkey teeth in order to determine the microwear patterns produced by a variety of different diets. They then turned their attention to the teeth of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus: The new study by Ungar, Brown, and colleagues suggests that, on average, A. africanus probably ate [...]
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