For generations, the human family tree has been drawn with confident lines separating ape-like ancestors from early humans, each genus a distinct chapter in our origins. Now, researchers at Monash University are asking whether those lines were ever truly there — or whether they were simply the limits of what we once knew. By proposing to expand the genus Homo to include Australopithecus and Paranthropus, they are not rewriting human history so much as acknowledging that nature rarely organizes itself to match our categories. The question, as always, is whether science can move faster than the