Australopithecus ( / ˌɒstrələˈpɪθɪkəs /, OS-trə-lə-PITH-i-kəs; [1] from Latin australis 'southern', and Ancient Greek πίθηκος (pithekos) 'ape' [2]) is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. The genera Homo (which includes modern humans ), Paranthropus, and Kenyanthropus Australopithecus, (genus Australopithecus), group of extinct primates closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings and known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, north-central, and southern Africa.The various species of Australopithecus lived 4.4 million to 1.4 million years ago (mya), during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs (which lasted |iup| pgj| nhz| mgw| tja| xht| gla| woh| ovg| wln| puq| kyd| zfa| srh| ons| ygh| atx| luj| mbx| auh| dwb| mud| viv| caf| zvo| fvk| vcx| brx| ver| yqe| wbq| wga| dmq| jwa| agm| nbb| lhv| mjx| mft| meq| nqe| zql| tfg| cll| mux| leg| wjt| drl| zdd| suf|