australopithecus
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See also: Australopithecus
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[edit]Noun
[edit]australopithecus (plural australopitheci or australopithecuses)
- Alternative letter-case form of Australopithecus.
- 1981, Yu[ri] A[ndreevich] Kharin, translated by Konstantin Kostrov, “[Dialectics: The Universal Connection and Development] Dialectics and Metaphysics”, in Fundamentals of Dialectics, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 117:
- The Ramapithecus line divided into two australopitheci which also died out, and the ancestor of modern man, which gradually evolved into Homo sapiens
- 1996, Alan Walker, Pat Shipman, “A Balanced Perspective”, in The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 257:
- If ramidus or one of the early australopithecuses, A. anamensis or A. afarensis, has a rather apelike vestibular system, as you might expect, then the old argument about mosaic evolution can be raised.
- 2002 December, Martin Riexinger, “The Islamic Creationism of Harun Yahya”, in Dick Douwes, editor, ISIM Newsletter, number 11, Leiden: International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, →ISSN, page 5, column 2:
- He also puts forth unfounded claims like the one that australopitheci had prehensile feet like chimps and not feet like men, enabling them to walk upright.
- 2004, Susan K. Freedman, Tom Eccles, Dan Cameron, Katy Siegel, Jeffrey Kastner, Anne Wehr, “Tony Matelli: Stray Dog and Distant Party”, in Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund, London: Merrell, →ISBN, page 157:
- His hyperrealistic sculptural installations have typically looked to gut the preconceived notions about bravery and honor with which monumental sculpture is infused—whether in the vomiting boy scouts cut off from their chaperones in Lost and Sick (1996–2001), or the comically pathetic scenario of Very, Very First Man: Necessary Alterations (1998–99), in which a pair of recently evolved australopitheci clumsily reattach each other’s tails in a vain attempt to return to lower (and presumably less responsibility-burdened) life forms.