Australopithecus boisei

[ aw-strey-loh-pith-i-kuhs boi-sey, -puh-thee-kuhs, aw-struh-loh- ]

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noun

a former classification of Paranthropus boisei .

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Word History and Origins

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

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