Australopithecus boisei

[aw-strey-loh-pith-i-kuhs boi-sey, -puh-thee-kuhs, aw-struh-loh-]

noun

1. a former classification of Paranthropus boisei .

Word History and Origins

Origin of Australopithecus boisei¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Science Magazine