Editing Paranthropus (section)

===Height and weight===
In comparison to the large, robust head, the body was rather small. Average weight for ''P. robustus'' may have been {{cvt|40|kg}} for males and {{cvt|32|kg}} for females;<ref name=Wood2000/> and for ''P. boisei'' {{cvt|50|kg}} for males and {{cvt|34|kg}} for females.<ref name=Wood2000/> At Swartkrans Cave Members 1 and 2, about 35% of the ''P. robustus'' individuals are estimated to have weighed {{cvt|28|kg}}, 22% about {{cvt|43|kg}}, and the remaining 43% bigger than the former but less than {{cvt|54|kg}}. At Member 3, all individuals were about {{cvt|45|kg}}.<ref name=McHenry1991a/> Female weight was about the same in contemporaneous ''H. erectus'', but male ''H. erectus'' were on average {{cvt|13|kg|1}} heavier than ''P. robustus'' males.<ref name=Susman2001>{{cite journal|first1=R. L.|last1=Susman|first2=D.|last2=de Ruiter|first3=C. K.|last3=Brain|year=2001|title=Recently identified postcranial remains of ''Paranthropus'' and Early ''Homo'' from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|volume=41|issue=6|pages=607–629|doi=10.1006/jhev.2001.0510|pmid=11782111|bibcode=2001JHumE..41..607S |s2cid=26326715}}</ref> ''P. robustus'' sites are oddly dominated by small adults, which could be explained as heightened predation or mortality of the larger males of a group.<ref name=Braga2017>{{cite journal|first1=J.|last1=Braga|first2=J. F.|last2=Thackeray|first3=L.|last3=Bruxelles|first4=J.|last4=Dumoncel|first5=J.-P.|last5=Fourvel|year=2017|title=Stretching the time span of hominin evolution at Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa): Recent discoveries|journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol|volume=16|issue=1|pages=58–70|doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2016.03.003|bibcode=2017CRPal..16...58B |doi-access=free}}</ref> The largest-known ''Paranthropus'' individual was estimated at {{cvt|54|kg}}.<ref name=McHenry1991a>{{cite journal|first=H. M.|last=McHenry|author-link=Henry McHenry (anthropologist)|year=1991|title=Petite bodies of the "robust" australopithecines|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=86|issue=4|pages=445–454|doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330860402}}</ref>

According to a 1991 study, based on [[femur]] length and using the dimensions of modern humans, male and female ''P. robustus'' are estimated to have stood on average {{cvt|132|and|110|cm|ftin|0}}, respectively, and ''P. boisei'' {{cvt|137|and|124|cm|ftin|0}}. However, the latter estimates are problematic as there were no positively identified male ''P. boisei'' femurs at the time.<ref name=McHenry1991b>{{cite journal|first=H. M.|last=McHenry|author-link=Henry McHenry (anthropologist)|year=1991|title=Femoral lengths and stature in Plio-Pleistocene hominids|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=85|issue=2|pages=149–158|doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330850204|pmid=1882979}}</ref> In 2013, a 1.34 Ma male ''P. boisei'' partial skeleton was estimated to be at least {{cvt|156|cm|ftin|0}} and {{cvt|50|kg}}.<ref name=Dominguez2013>{{cite journal|first1=M.|last1=Domínguez-Rodrigo|first2=T. R.|last2=Rayne|first3=E.|last3=Baquedano|display-authors=et al.|year=2013|title=First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old ''Paranthropus boisei'' from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=12|page=e80347|pmc=3855051|pmid=24339873|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0080347|bibcode=2013PLoSO...880347D|doi-access=free}}</ref>