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PrimatologyHomo HabilisOrgan DevelopmentPrimate SystematicsProfessor John RobinsonSocial SciencesEmbryologyHuman OriginPaleoanthropologyMorphogenesisPrimate FossilCurrent TopicsGenus Australo- PithecusBiologyDevelopmental BiologyEvolutionary Developmental BiologyEvolutionary BiologyDevelopmental ScienceOntogenyAnthropologyPaleoecologyMedicine
In addition he argues strongly for the inclusion of Homo habilis within the genus Australo- pithecus, thus regarding all the African sub-Saharan Lower Pleistocene hominids as belonging to one genus ancestral to man-a viewpoint widely but not universally accepted.At least one admitted authority, Professor John Robinson, believes that the large and small australopithecines are generically distinct, and that there is evidence of the larger form outside the continent of Africa.