Australopithecus afarensis

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ə fä ren′sis)


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Australopith′ecus a•far•en′sis  (ə fä ren′sis),USA pronunciation 
  1. Physical Anthropologyan extinct species of early hominid whose fossil remains were discovered in Ethiopia and have been dated at between 3.5 and 4 million years of age.
  2. Physical Anthropologya fossil belonging to this species. Cf. Lucy. See illus. under hominid. 
  • Neo-Latin; after the Afar region of Ethiopia, where Lucy was found; see Afar, -ensis
  • 1978

'Australopithecus afarensis' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Hadar - Lucy

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