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ROBINSON1–4 has suggested that the robust and gracile australopithecines had different diets; the robust forms were vegetarians, whereas the gracile forms were omnivores. Because he believed they occupied these different adaptive zones, Robinson separated the australopithecines generically: the robust types were called Paranthropus and the gracile types Australopithecus.
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WALLACE, J. Tooth Chipping in the Australopithecines. Nature 244, 117–118 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244117a0
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