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(zoologia), (mammalogia), (primatologia) primate fossile bipede, appartenente ai primati, della famiglia degli ominidi, esistito nel pliocene tra 4 (o probabilmente 6) e 1 milione di anni fa in Africa orientale e meridionale; la sua classificazione scientifica è Australopithecus (tassonomia)