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Plesianthropus Palæont.|pliːzɪˈænθrəpəs|
[mod.L. (R. Broom 1938, in Nature 27 Aug. 377/1), f. plesio- + Gr. ἄνθρωπος man.]
An African fossil hominid of the genus formerly so called, now usually included in the species Australopithecus africanus.
1941Nature 5 July 11/1 Plesianthropus..has a skull somewhat like that of the chimpanzee in size. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) iii. 91 Australopithecus and Plesianthropus came to light in quarrying operations. 1960E. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 421/1 Plesianthropus, an African man-like ape fossil from the Pleistocene period. 1977G. W. Hewes in D. M. Rumbaugh Language Learning by Chimpanzee i. 40 As for the Australopithecines (based on casts of the Sterkfontein individual formerly called ‘Plesianthropus’) no articulate language would have been possible for them. |