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Zinjanthropus
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Zinjanthropus
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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
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a type of early hominid (Australopithecus boisei) who lived about 1,500,000 years ago in the Lower Pleistocene
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Zinjanthropus
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An extinct hominin postulated from a skull found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959 and originally designated Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis S.B. Leakey. It was later renamed Paranthropus boisei.
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