Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo

Aug 19, 2026 - 12:00
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Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo
Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev.

Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils into the genus Homo, arguing that traits once used to separate species -- big brains, tool use -- no longer hold up.

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