Talk:Australopiths

REDIRECT target changed from Australopithecus to Australopithecine

• The Evolutionary History of the Australopiths — 2010

The australopiths are a group of early hominins (humans and their close extinct relatives) that lived in Africa between approximately 4.1 and 1.4 million years ago.

Formerly known as the australopithecines, they are not a "natural" group, in that they do not represent all of the descendants of a single common ancestor (i.e., they are not a "clade"). Rather, they are grouped together informally because nearly all share a similar adaptive grade (i.e., they have similar adaptations).

It seemed wrong for other reasons, but what do I know?

If you know better than the cite above, feel free to change it back. — MaxEnt 20:55, 10 August 2021 (UTC)