Zinjanthropus

American  

[zin-jan-thruh-puhs, zin-jan-throh-] / zɪnˈdʒæn θrə pəs, ˌzɪn dʒænˈθroʊ- /

noun

1. a genus to which Paranthropus boisei was formerly assigned.

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zinjanthropus British  

/ zɪnˈdʒænθrəpəs /

noun

1. a type of australopithecine, Australopithecus boisei (formerly Zinjanthropus boisei ), remains of which were discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania in 1959

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zinjanthropus Scientific  

/ zĭn-jăn′thrə-pəs,zĭn′jăn-thrō′- /

1. An extinct hominid postulated from bones found in Tanzania in 1959 and originally designated Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis S.B. Leakey. It was later shown to be an australopithecine and renamed Australopithecus boisei.

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Etymology

Origin of Zinjanthropus

First recorded in 1955–60; from New Latin, from Arabic zinj, an area in East Africa + Greek ánthrōpos “human being, man”

Example Sentences

Despite his small brain size, he had a fairly high forehead, not a flat one like that of Zinjanthropus.

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Following the success of Zinjanthropus, Louis began spending less and less time at Olduvai, which became Mary's domain.

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What my mother Mary had discovered were the fragments of a fossil skull that was later to be named Zinjanthropus boisei.

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Using a method known as potassium-argon dating, Zinjanthropus was determined to be 1.75 million years old.

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He now believes that Zinjanthropus was an Australopithecine, a nonhuman vegetarian of low intelligence and not a toolmaker.

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