Kenyanthropus is a possible hominid genus acording to some paleoanthropologists. The genus is based on a discovery in kenya of 3.5 million year old fossils of a hominid, which had a flat face and more humanlike teeth acording to Meave Leakey. Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The Hominids (Hominidae) are a biological family which includes humans, extinct species of humanlike creatures and the other great apes... See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... Paeloanthropology is the branch of physical anthropology that focuses on the study of human evolution. ... Meave (Epps) Leakey (born 1942 in London, England) is together with her husband Richard Leakey one of the most renowned British paleontologists. ...

The Kenyanthropus genus currently contains only K. platyops (the discovery Meave Leakey's team made) and possibly K. rudolfensis, acording to some paleoanthropologists.

However, some paleoanthropologists sceptical that Kenyanthropus is a distinct genus, and thick it is just a distorted Australopithecine. Species A. afarensis (Lucy) A. africanus A. anamensis A. garhi Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus Australopithecines (genus Australopithecus) are a group of extinct hominids that are closely related to humans. ...

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Kenyanthropus platyops Binomial name Kenyanthropus platyops Kenyanthropus is a 3. ...

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Site on the Kenyanthropus genus (claims Homo rudolfensis is actually K. rudolfensis) [1] Binomial name Homo rudolfensis Alexeev, 1986 The species Homo rudolfensis was originally proposed in 1986 by V. P. Alexeev for the specimen KNM ER 1470. ...