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Paranthropus boisei
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Paranthropus is an extinct genus of bipedal hominid that is descended from Australopethicus. All species of Paranthropus were bipedal, and many lived during when the Homo genus, also descended from Australopethicus, was prevelant.
Opinions differ as to whether the species aethiopicus, boisei and robustus should be included within the genus Australopithecus, the current consenses in the scientific community is that they should be placed in a distinct genus, Paranthropus, which is believed to have developed from the ancestral Australopithecus line. Up until the last half decade the majority, however, included all the species shown at right in a single genus.