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A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.

Kirtlandia, 28, 1-14. 1978.

Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.

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