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Swartkrans ape-man

(svärt′kränz′)

an early hominid (Australopithecus robustus crassidens) known from fossil remains and thought to be from the Middle Pleistocene

Origin: after Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa, where the remains were found

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