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africanthropus

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Af⋅ri⋅can⋅thro⋅pus

  [af-ri-kan-thruh-puhs, -kan-throh-puhs]
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–noun
a genus of hominids of eastern Africa, assumed from a number of now lost skull fragments to have been a form of archaic Homo: no longer in technical use.
Origin:
< NL (1939), equiv. to Afric(a) Africa + Gk ánthrōpos man, human being
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