The name of the genus "Zinjanthropus" has since been dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
UPDATE: Archaeoblog sees Zinjanthropus a different way. From Wordnik.com. [Fathoming the sad face of the caveman.] Reference
What has been the lasting impact of the Zinjanthropus discovery?. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
Australopithecus-Zinjanthropus Boisei - or the "Nutcracker Man.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
How did discovering Zinjanthropus boisei change life for your family?. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
It's an artist's rendition of Zinjanthropus, a fossil human ancestor discovered in the 1960s. From Wordnik.com. [Fathoming the sad face of the caveman.] Reference
There is substantial evidence that a common ancestor (Zinjanthropus) existed two million years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society] Reference
One last question, what has been the greatest fossil hominid discovery since Zinjanthropus and why?. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
What was happening on the site when your mother, Mary Leakey, made the discovery of Zinjanthropus boisei?. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
John Reader photo-journalist and author of “Missing Links”, “Whatever happened to Zinjanthropus?”. From Wordnik.com. [This view of life - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
That's because Leakey knew that his find wasn't what he'd hoped; Zinjanthropus would not be the proverbial "missing link.". From Wordnik.com. [Fathoming the sad face of the caveman.] Reference
Zinjanthropus skull discovered by Mary Leakey, at Olduvai, resulting in a major reevaluation of the chronology of human origins. From Wordnik.com. [1956] Reference
Therefore Zinjanthropus was a tool-making creature and deserves the name "hominid" in the cultural as well as the zoological sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
The Zinjanthropus skull is much more primitive than any living human skull but also it is much more advanced than any living ape skull. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
His pithy accounts explain how the fossils of everything from Archeopteryx to Tyrannosaurus to Zinjanthropus came to be discovered and interpreted. From Wordnik.com. [When We First Undertook A Search for Life on Earth] Reference
My first stop was the FLK-Zinj site in Tanzania where in 1959 Mary Leakey made her famous discovery of Zinjanthropus (now known as Australopithecus boisei). From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Novice in Wonderland] Reference
On July 17, 1959 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a fossilized skull from a previously unknown species of hominid that she and husband Louis Leakey named Zinjanthropus boisei. From Wordnik.com. [Zinj and the Leakeys] Reference
For example, the famous discovery made by Mary Leakey at Olduvai in 1959 was not Australopithecus africanus, as stated on page 37, but Zinjanthropus, now known as Australopithecus boisei. From Wordnik.com. [Multimedia: Adventures in Africa] Reference
The discovery of the Zinjanthropus skull created a stir. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
And it wasn't until the discovery of the Zinjanthropus. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
Formerly Zinjanthropus boisei (Zinj is ancient Arabic word for East Africa). From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
While my E-book opens with a foreword by Mary Leakey about evolution -- and the media stardom and National Geographic Society funding which followed her discovery of Zinjanthropus. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
Zinjanthropus, for example, combines the Arabic zinj (East Africa) and a Latinized form of Creek anthropos (man), while musaceous is constructed from the Arabic mawzah 'banana,' the Latin scientific particle - aceae, and the English adjectival suffixous. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
We visited the National Museum which proclaims to have the famous fossil discoveries of Zinjanthropus (nutcracker man, so called because of his large molars) in particular the apelike skull (sitting in a simple glass case) which is meant to be 1.8 million years old. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Zinjanthropus boisei ( "Zinj" also known as Nutcracker man or East Africa man), because they believed the hominid was sufficiently different from the australopithecines that it represented a different species; it was later reclassified as one of the robust australopithecines. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I would give up the part of my name that I share with this Zinjanthropus, but “er” doesn’t have much of a ring to it. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » CNN’s Glenn Beck Describes Himself As ‘Mr. Oreo Cookie’ On Martin Luther King Day] Reference
When was Zinjanthropus found?. From Wordnik.com. [The Web: From Apes to Zinj] Reference
Zinjanthropus said. From Wordnik.com. [Basing career potential on high school achievements] Reference
Zinjanthropus boisei. From Wordnik.com. [Subject Index Page 84] Reference
Zinjanthropus was in 1959. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
Young, Thomas, 270, 295 Zinjanthropus, 155. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
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