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Meet Lucy, the celebrity of fossils, who changed our view of evolution
The diminutive skeleton was remarkably complete ... bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was not the only Australopithecus. Even older than her, Ardipithecus — discovered ...
Phys.org24d
We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modeling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is a ...
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Riddle of the Bones
Each of the four dig sites reveals only a partial picture: Lucy, while a 40 percent complete skeleton ... finds all belonged to a single species: Australopithecus afarensis, the Southern Ape ...
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Early Human Ancestors Were Surprisingly Slow
To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus ...
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Finding Lucy:
What was the crucial change that set us on the path to becoming human? Our big brains, with their capacity for language and making complex tools, set us apart from other animals. Our ability to ...
BBC11y
Origins of the Human Race
In 1997 an Australopithecus skull and skeleton was found in a cave in Sterkfontein ... of a young girl known to the outside world as Lucy and to Ethiopians as Dinqnish - the wonderful or precious ...
The Conversation24d
We modelled how early human ancestors ran – and found they were surprisingly slow
my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is ...