Definitions for "Australopithecus africanus"
( os-trail-oh-pith ah-cuss ah-frih-cane us)A fossil hominid species from South Africa dated from about 3 to 2.3 mya. It is similar to A. afarensis and may well be a direct evolutionary descendant of the earlier species. It retained the chimp-sized brain and was fully bipedal.
gracile hominid of southern Africa; from about 3 million years ago
Homo rudolfensis Pliocene
The successor of Australopithecus anamensis. Discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart. Omnivorous.