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1938 R. Broom in Nature 27 Aug. 379/1 The skull may be referred to as the Kromdraai..skull, and may be given the name Paranthropus robustus.]

1938 Science 9 Dec. (Suppl.) 6/2 Three broken pieces of bone, newly found at Kromdraai in South Africa, give strong evidence that the extinct anthropoid ape Paranthropus walked on two legs like a man.

1946 Transvaal Mus. Mem. II. iii. 92 The Paranthropus skull resembles the living anthropoids much more than it does man.

1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. iii. 62 Now, however, anatomists are agreed that only one generic form is represented in the Man-ape remains but that two specific forms exist—Australopithecus and a later, more specialized form, Paranthropus.

1971 S. A. Barnett Human Species (ed. 5) iv. 100 There are..some more recently discovered forms (‘Paranthropus’) which were probably above the average height of modern man.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Oct. 24/1 The robust australopithecines are often placed in the separate genus Paranthropus.

2001 Nature 22 Mar. 419/1 Only three diverse groups of hominins—species more closely related to humans than to chimpanzees—were known, namely Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo, the genus to which humans belong.