To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved ... helped support her internal organs and entire upper body as she moved. Lucy: arm bones With dangling, powerful ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis ... they likely wouldn't have done much with her body. There's no evidence that A. afarensis "bodies were treated any differently ...
A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her nickname 'Lucy', was unearthed by researchers 50 years ago this month in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The ancestor named 'Lucy ...
This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil found by Donald Johanson. A. afarensis' small braincases and relatively large teeth and chewing muscles are similar to those of ...
Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated fauna appeared to corroborate this hypothesis. However, the ecological contexts of the earliest hominins suggest that the link ...