Australopithecus (Noun)
Meaning
Extinct genus of African hominid.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Australopithecus was an early hominid with ape-like characteristics and upright walking capabilities.
- Fossils of the extinct genus Australopithecus date back as far as four million years in Eastern Africa.
- In comparison with humans, the skull of the Australopithecus afarensis species has a larger brain cavity to facial proportion.
- Walking on two feet seemed essential to Australopithecus with only those erect may attain complete, nutrition satisfaction that animals share resources after threat existence decreased locally otherwise most a.
- The genus Australopithecus lived until about two million years ago when the earliest species of Homo appeared.