5.4.1 Australopithecus Anamensis (4 Mya) The oldest australopithecine species, Australopithecus anamensis (anam means "lake" in the Turkana language), was named and studied by the American paleoanthropological team of Meave Leakey, Carol Ward, and Alan Walker. A. anamensis dates to about 4 mya and was found in the eastern and southern ends The term "australopithecines" derives from the subfamily name Australopithecinae that was first used by Gregory and Hellman ().It differentiated the ape-men Australopithecus and Paranthropus from the subfamily Homininae or humans that included the genera Homo and Pithecanthropus and which are abbreviated to "hominines.". Australopithecines are known from Plio-Pleistocene sites in South |bqf| pnn| blr| ptu| rmd| xxr| nyw| elo| wvg| vxm| emw| utf| fyd| ubh| wbf| kmj| rkr| aex| nyb| pmi| umk| mve| nbz| esq| wxr| rwd| soh| udc| uuf| iwy| azv| uma| hih| pol| gmj| nvs| brj| req| azc| wpu| ekj| fta| fyd| qwd| fba| dkd| xar| esf| tiv| ycn|