| 1. | The entire australopithecine branch became extinct about one million years ago.
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| 2. | Sponheimer said in a telephone interview, referring to the australopithecines.
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| 3. | They also cast most australopithecines out of the human ancestral line.
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| 4. | Australopithecines displayed the reverse _ small bodies and large molar teeth.
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| 5. | The australopithecines included several species of hominids transitional between apes and humans.
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| 6. | Six Australopithecine species have been found since the 1920s.
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| 7. | Sponheimer conceded that it was not certain that these australopithecines were eating meat.
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| 8. | Australopithecines gave rise to the group called Homo, which includes modern people.
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| 9. | Early australopithecine brains were little larger than chimpanzee brains.
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| 10. | The shoulders are configured largely like those of australopithecines.
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