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...species. Between 3 million and 1.9 million years B.P., several variations on the Australopithecus theme popped up in eastern and southern Africa, including A. africanus, A. aethiopicus, A. robustus and A. boisei. (Just to complicate matters, the last three are assigned by some experts to an entirely different genus, Paranthropus...
...passed their genes on to the next evolutionary generation. Between 3 million and 2 million years B.P., a healthy handful of descendants sprang from the A. afarensis line, upright primates that were similar to Lucy in overall body design but different in the details of bone structure. Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, Paranthropus boisei -- all flourished in Africa. But in the evolutionary elimination tournament, the two Paranthropus species eventually lost out. Only A. africanus, most scientists believe, survived to give rise to the next character in the human drama...
...lives there . . . She is a female of the species Paranthropus erectus...
...only a few months after French Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...
Murder or Not? Vercors' question comes up when British scientists discover in New Guinea a large tribe of cliff-dwellers. Paranthropus ("tropi" for short) is a queer chap, human in that he smokes his meat and buries his dead; simian in many of his physical characteristics; a bit of both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...