Sentences with phrase «afarensis skeleton»

Several more bones from this species have been found in Ethiopia, including the famed «Lucy,» a nearly complete A. afarensis skeleton found in Hadar.

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This involved casting a number of foot bones known for A. afarensis, including a partial foot skeleton, in a shrinkable material, and shrinking them to Lucy's size.

Dr. Lewis wanted to be a paleoanthropologist working in East Africa since he was 13, when he read a book about the famous Lucy skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis.

The 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton was the most complete example of Australopithecus afarensis ever found.

In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974.

Pickford and Senut believe that Orrorin had already evolved more humanlike femurs and teeth than A. afarensis, a species that includes the famous skeleton Lucy.

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

reationists have been making the claim that Donald Johanson found the knee joint of «Lucy,» a 40 % - complete skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis, in a location «Sixty to seventy meters lower in the strata and two to three kilometers away» (Willis 1987).

«Lucy,» the 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis (left) and «Neo,» a skeleton of Homo naledi (right) that was dated as being roughly 250,000 years old.

The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year - old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.