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The first sign that there might be a different ... Lucy gave us an unprecedented picture of her kind. In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor ... revealed that Lucy wasn’t as good at running as modern humans.

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago. The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ...