Australopithecus boisei

American

[aw-strey-loh-pith-i-kuhs boi-sey, -puh-thee-kuhs, aw-struh-loh-] / ɔˌstreɪ loʊˈpɪθ ɪ kəs bɔɪˈseɪ, -pəˈθi kəs, ˌɔ strə loʊ- /

noun

a former classification of Paranthropus boisei .

Etymology

Origin of Australopithecus boisei

From New Latin; Australopithecus ( def. ) + boisei after Charles Boise, a benefactor of L.S.B. Leakey, who described and named the original finds in 1959

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In 1969, the team “hit the jackpot,” as Leakey put it, discovering the nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor, Australopithecus boisei.

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