1959

Paranthropus boisei

• Mary Leakey found the first bones
• in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
• Her husband Louis named the creature,
• another member of the human family.
• Her son Richard suggested they were
• the first in the family to use stone tools.

Hominini

• Northwest First Peoples believed
• bears were kinds of human beings.
• Why isn’t Pan troglodytes
• considered a genus of Homo?
• Classification of primates seems confused
• by our feelings of superiority.
• Why do we have trouble accepting others
• with different cultures or colors
• when our hearts go out on first sight
• for a baby Gorilla gorilla?
• John Edward Gray gave us the Homininae family
• and as members we should welcome all our tribe.

A.K.A.

• Paranthropus boisei
• Paranthropus boisei
• Paranthropus boisei
• a.k.a. Australopithecus boisei
• according to Raymond Dart,
• a.k.a. Zinjanthropus boisei
• according to Louis Leakey,
• a.k.a. Nutcracker Man
• with teeth built for chewing,
• named boisei
• for the man who funded the research,
• lived for over a million years, and has been
• extinct for just as long.