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Scientists want to fold Australopithecus into our own genus, rewriting the human family tree

The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

Australopithecus findings could rewrite how we classify millions of years of human evolution

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...