Sentences with phrase «old fossil australopithecus»
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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.
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University of Arkansas anthropologist Mike Plavcan recently reexamined fossils of one of our earliest bipedal ancestors, the 4 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis, and found hominids may not have been as marriage minded as previously thought.
The same traits are seen in 2 - million - to 4 - million - year - old fossils that belong to Australopithecus (Aw - STRAL - oh - PITH - eh - kus).
On November 24, 1974, fossils of one of the oldest known human ancestors, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen nicknamed «Lucy,» were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia.
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.