"The Taung Child"

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Subfamily	Genus	Species	Example	Alternative Name
	Ardipithecus	ramidus	"Ardi"
Australo- pithecines	Australo- pithecus	anamensis
		afarensis	"Lucy"
		africanus	Taung
		garhi
		aethiopicus	"Black Skull"	Paranthropus (aka A. robustus)
		boisei	"Zinj"
		robustus	Swartkrans
	Kenyanthropus	platyops	"Flat-faced Kenya Man"
	Orrorin	tugenensis	"Millenium Man"
Adapted from Intoduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed, Jurmain, Nelson, Kilgore, and Trevathand (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2000, pp. 285 - 290).

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