Australopithecus

Anthropologist Donald Johanson at Arizona State, who discovered the 3. 2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton from a more primitive species called australopithecus afarensis that has come to symbolize human evolution, considered the new species a parallel offshoot of the human line rather than a direct human ancestor. ❋ Robert Lee Hotz (2010)

Anthropologist Donald Johanson at Arizona State, who discovered the 3. 2-million-year-old "Lucy" skeleton from a more primitive species called australopithecus afarensis that has come to symbolize human evolution, considered the new species a parallel offshoot of the human line and not a direct human ancestor. ❋ Robert Lee Hotz (2010)

Your momma was an an australopithecus and your daddy was a tapeworm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The three-and-a-half-year-old Taung child is the type specimen of the human ancestor species australopithecus africanus and the first early human ancestor fossil to be discovered in Africa. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“I think our new discoveries confirm the view that australopithecus was an offshoot of the hominid line, a contemporary of early man who died out,” she said. ❋ Virginia Morell (1995)

Not to mention there were hominids far before australopithecus, such as Sahelthropus tchadensis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my teens, I tried to write a science fiction story about a distant future in which certain primates had evolved to somewhere around the level of australopithecus, and the ethical problems we future humans (which I illustrated as bald and bulging headed) faced in dealing with them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Modern humans have already encountered other species more advanced than australopithecus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Were Cain and Able screwing australopithecus africanus? ❋ Unknown (2009)

3. A reading of Genesis and the Dine Creation myth; 4. Lecture on the basics of human evolution-australopithecus to us. ❋ Unknown (2005)