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Who Discovered Robust Australopithecines?

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Who Discovered Robust Australopithecines?

The 1959 discovery of a nearly complete cranium by Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa.
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at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, first revealed the presence of a robust australopith in East Africa. The fossil was dated to 1.8 mya, and it was the first African hominin whose age was accurately measured by argon analysis.

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Reconstructed replica of “Nutcracker Man,” a 1.75-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei skull found in 1959 by archaeologist Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

What is the new genus name for the more robust australopithecines?

However, the taxonomy of these teeth was uncertain until the discovery in 1959 of OH 5, a well-preserved adolescent cranium also from Olduvai Gorge22. Leakey thought the OH 5 cranium was distinct from both Australopithecus and Paranthropus, and consequently he attributed it to a new genus and species, Zinjanthropus ...

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