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Australopithecus means "southern ape".
He called it Australopithecus africanus, meaning "southern ape of Africa".
Dart made the skull the type specimen of a new genus and species, Australopithecus africanus, or "southern ape of Africa".
The genus name meaning "southern ape" refers to the first fossils found, which were discovered in South Africa.
In 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, she discovered the skull of an early hominin (member of the human lineage) that her husband named, or "eastern man," though it is now regarded as, a type of australopith, or "southern ape".
Australopithecus (genus Australopithecus), ( Latin: "southern ape") group of extinct creatures closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings and known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, central, and southern Africa.
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The remains, found in the Malapa cave network at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site 40km outside Johannesburg, have already triggered a row over their identity, because they share anatomical features with both early humans from the genus, Homo, and their ancient predecessors, the Australopithecines, or southern apes.
Southern skunk apes were generally known to be smaller, but meaner, than their Pacific Northwest counterparts.
Similarly, new retroviruses, human T-lymphotropic virus types 3 and 4 were found in persons who hunt, butcher, or keep monkeys or apes as pets in southern Cameroon (25 ).
The latter included the articulated skeleton of the miocene ape Oreopitecus bambolii recovered in Southern Tuscany (Rook 2009) and an early human skull found in 1995 in Eritrea, both fossils studied by Lorenzo Rook of the Florence University (Abbate et al. 2004), who presented his fieldwork and studies.
Those southern chimpanzees evolved into smaller, more slender apes that today are more peaceful than their warring cousins north of the river.
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