We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggests
our ancestor "Lucy" roamed what is now Ethiopia. The discovery of her fossil skeleton 50 years ago transformed our understanding of human evolution. But it turns out her species, Australopithecus ...
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Meet Lucy, the celebrity of fossils, who changed our view of evolution
Her Ethiopian name is Dinkinesh ... and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was not the only Australopithecus. Even older than her, Ardipithecus — discovered in 1994 ...
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Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...
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Finding Lucy:
In 1973, when Don Johanson found a surprisingly human-looking fossil knee at Hadar in Ethiopia that tuned out ... in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in ...
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New fossil discovery of an early human ancestor reveals that it walked upright, just like humans
A team of international researchers affiliated to the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), in South Africa indicates in new research that a group of ...
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Riddle of the Bones
Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 and 3.0 million years ago. They are believed to be the most ancient common ancestor, or "stem" species ...
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
One of the most famous finds was in ... outside world as Lucy and to Ethiopians as Dinqnish - the wonderful or precious one. She was about the same age as Sterkfontein man. Australopithecus ...
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Origins of the Human Race
One of the most famous finds was in ... outside world as Lucy and to Ethiopians as Dinqnish - the wonderful or precious one. She was about the same age as Sterkfontein man. Australopithecus ...
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Is This Great Ape an Ancestor of Mankind?
Lucy was the name given ... This species of Australopithecus exhibited powerful chewing abilities. One fossil found in the Omo River of Ethiopia showed that these early humans were well-adapted ...
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Maurice Taieb, Geologist Who Discovered “Lucy” Site, Dies at 86
Taieb recognized the potential importance of the Hadar Formation, where remains of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis were found only a few years later. Lisa Winter became social media editor for ...
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The First Australopithecus, 1925
Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...