Australopithecus boisei discovery

Paranthropus boisei

Paranthropus boisei or Australopithecus boisei was an early hominin, described as the largest of the Paranthropus genus (robust australopithecines). It lived in Eastern Africa during the Pleistocene epoch from about 2.3 until about 1.2 million years ago.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranthropus boisei
• Walker, A., 1996, 2.5-Myr Australopithecus boisei from west of Lake Turkana, Kenya: Nature, v. 322, p. 517 - 522.