Editing Paranthropus (section)

====''P. robustus''====
The genus ''Paranthropus'' was first erected by Scottish-South African [[palaeontologist]] [[Robert Broom]] in 1938, with the [[type species]] ''[[Paranthropus robustus|P. robustus]]''.<ref name=Broom1938/> "''Paranthropus''" derives from [[Ancient Greek]] παρα ''para'' beside or alongside; and άνθρωπος ''ánthropos'' man.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Paranthropus|title=''Paranthropus''|publisher=Merriam–Webster Dictionary|access-date=19 December 2019}}</ref> The [[type specimen]], a male braincase, [[TM 1517]], was discovered by schoolboy Gert Terblanche at the [[Kromdraai fossil site]], about {{cvt|70|km}} southwest of [[Pretoria]], South Africa.<ref name=Broom1938>{{cite journal|first=R.|last=Broom|author-link=Robert Broom|year=1938|title=The Pleistocene Anthropoid Apes of South Africa|journal=Nature|volume=142|issue=3591|pages=377–379|doi=10.1038/142377a0|bibcode=1938Natur.142..377B|doi-access=free}}</ref> By 1988, at least six individuals were unearthed in around the same area, now known as the [[Cradle of Humankind]].<ref name=Constantino2004/>

In 1948, at [[Swartkrans]] Cave, in about the same vicinity as Kromdraai, Broom and South African palaeontologist [[John Talbot Robinson]] described ''P. crassidens'' based on a subadult jaw, SK 6. He believed later ''Paranthropus'' were morphologically distinct from earlier ''Paranthropus'' in the cave—that is, the Swartkrans ''Paranthropus'' were [[reproductively isolated]] from Kromdraai ''Paranthropus'' and the former eventually [[speciate]]d.<ref>{{cite journal|first=R.|last=Broom|year=1948|title=Another new type of fossil ape-man|journal=Nature|volume=162|issue=4132|page=57|doi=10.1038/163057a0|pmid=18106151|s2cid=4126221|doi-access=free}}</ref> By 1988, several specimens from Swartkrans had been placed into ''P. crassidens''. However, this has since been synonymised with ''P. robustus'' as the two populations do not seem to be very distinct.<ref name=Constantino2004/>