The first thing I feel the need to mention is the fact that the Paranthropus species are often referred to as the Robust Australopithecines, this has to do with the fact that they are incredibly ...

He named the fossil Australopithecus africanus ... Leakey originally named the skull Zinjanthropus boisei — "Zinj" is an old name for East Africa — and affectionately called him "Dear Boy." ...

A. boisei is similar to A. robustus, except that its skull and teeth are even larger. Some experts consider the two closely related, both branching from another species called A. aethiopicus.

But the Leakeys thought their find different enough to constitute a new category of hominids, and called it Zinjanthropus boisei. They suggested that it lived 1.75 million years agoÑmaking it by ...