Australopithecus boisei
Americannoun
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
Example Sentences
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His team found fossils crucial to our current understanding of human evolution, including skulls of Australopithecus boisei, Homo rudolfensis, and the famed H. erectus skeleton, “Nariokotome boy.”
From Science Magazine • Jan. 5, 2022
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 • Jan. 2, 2022
The bone belonged to a 2.5 million-year-old ape-man called Australopithecus boisei.
From Time Magazine Archive
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