Topic ID #7925 - posted 6/21/2010 3:51 PM
Jennifer Palmer
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Lucy fossil gets jolted upright by Big Man
Jennifer Palmer
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Partial skeleton suggests ancient roots for humanlike walking
By Bruce Bower
An older guy has sauntered into Lucy’s life, and some researchers believe he stands ready to recast much of what scientists know about the celebrated early hominid and her species.
Excavations in Ethiopia’s Afar region have uncovered a 3.6-million-year-old partial male skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis. This is the first time since the excavation of Lucy in 1974 that paleoanthropologists have turned up more than isolated pieces of an adult from the species, which lived in East Africa from about 4 million to 3 million years ago.
A nearly complete skeleton of an A. afarensis child has been retrieved from another Ethiopian site (SN: 9/23/06, p. 195).
Read the rest of the article here.
By Bruce Bower
An older guy has sauntered into Lucy’s life, and some researchers believe he stands ready to recast much of what scientists know about the celebrated early hominid and her species.
Excavations in Ethiopia’s Afar region have uncovered a 3.6-million-year-old partial male skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis. This is the first time since the excavation of Lucy in 1974 that paleoanthropologists have turned up more than isolated pieces of an adult from the species, which lived in East Africa from about 4 million to 3 million years ago.
A nearly complete skeleton of an A. afarensis child has been retrieved from another Ethiopian site (SN: 9/23/06, p. 195).
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#17792 - replied 6/22/2010 4:53 PM
marehart
One reason Lucy is thought to have been so arboreal is the CURVED toes and fingers! After reading the full story, am disappointed. Seems to me another case of gross, wishful extrapolation made for headlines.
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