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    species, "A. transvaalensis", and in 1938 moved it into a new genus as "Plesianthropus transvaalensis". He also discovered the robust australopithecine Paranthropus...
    54 KB (6,887 words) - 21:26, 7 October 2024
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    coined by Broom's young co-workers. It derives from the scientific name Plesianthropus transvaalensis (near-man from the Transvaal), that Broom initially gave...
    8 KB (897 words) - 11:16, 17 August 2024
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    R. (1939). "The dentition of the Transvaal Pleistocene anthropoids, Plesianthropus and Paranthropus" (PDF). Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 19 (3): 303–314...
    48 KB (5,379 words) - 01:33, 16 September 2024
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    Plesianthropus transvaalensis (Australopithecus africanus)...
    17 KB (1,559 words) - 04:55, 12 September 2024
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    possibly that of an adolescent male). Broom initially named the skull Plesianthropus transvaalensis (near-man from Transvaal), but it became better known...
    13 KB (1,464 words) - 09:17, 4 August 2024
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    Mayr included not only Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus, but also Plesianthropus, Paranthropus, Javanthropus, and several other genera as synonyms, arguing...
    45 KB (5,473 words) - 17:20, 29 May 2024
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    including fragments from six hominins in Sterkfontein, which they named Plesianthropus transvaalensis, popularly called Mrs. Ples, but which was later classified...
    18 KB (1,867 words) - 08:08, 27 August 2024
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    based on the Taung child.: 285–288  In 1936, Broom had described "Plesianthropus transvaalensis" (now synonymised with A. africanus) from the Sterkfontein...
    107 KB (13,525 words) - 06:31, 2 September 2024