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Swartkrans ape-man

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[sfahrt-krahnz eyp-man] / ˈsfɑrt krɑnz ˈeɪpˌmæn /

noun

  1. the fossil remains of the extinct hominin Paranthropus robustus, found at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1930s: formerly classified in the genus Australopithecus.

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