 Initially, anthropologists were largely hostile to the idea that these discoveries were anything but apes, though this changed during the late 1940s.In 1950, evolutionary biologist Ernst Walter Mayr said that all bipedal apes should be classified into the genus "Homo", and considered renaming "Australopithecus" to "Homo transvaalensis".However, the contra view taken by Robinson in 1954, excluding australopiths from "Homo", became the prevalent view.