We modelled how early human ancestors ran – and found they were surprisingly slow
Our team’s research modelled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could ...
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Lucy, our early human ancestor, may have died after falling from a tree
A representative model of the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of Lucy ... adds to the contentious debate about whether or not Lucy and her Australopithecus afarensis species -- which walked upright ...
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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 ...
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New fossil discovery shows early human relative walked upright
A newly discovered fossil of Paranthropus robustus, an early human relative, reveals that it walked upright like modern ...
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Origins of the Human Race
In 1997 an Australopithecus skull and skeleton was found in a cave ... of a young girl known to the outside world as Lucy and to Ethiopians as Dinqnish - the wonderful or precious one.
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
In 1997 an Australopithecus skull and skeleton was found in a cave ... of a young girl known to the outside world as Lucy and to Ethiopians as Dinqnish - the wonderful or precious one.
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Is This Great Ape an Ancestor of Mankind?
Take, for example, the Australopithecus ... Other changes to the skull help in chewing challenging pieces of food. Lucy was the name given to one of the very first unearthed hominin fossils.
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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 ...