- an extinct species of upright East African hominin having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- a fossil belonging to this species.
- an extinct species of primitive man, the first to use stone tools
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