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austrolopithecus afarensis

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MOTHER OF MAN - 3 . 2 million years ago

" One discovery has transformed views of how we became .
Lucy was discovered in 1974 in a maze of at Hadar in northern Ethiopia .
Johanson and Gray were out searching the when they spotted a fragment of arm bone .
Johanson the fossil skeleton Lucy

Discovery of a lifetime

Johanson immediately recognised it as belonging to a . They looked up the , and they saw more fragments : ribs , vertebrae , thighbones and a partial .
They unearthed 47 bones of a hominid , or creature , that lived around 3 . 2 years ago .
Because of its size , and pelvic shape , they concluded it was and named it 'Lucy' .

An chimp

Like a chimpanzee , Lucy had a small brain , long , arms , short legs and a cone - shaped with a large . But the structure of her and pelvis show that she routinely walked on two , like us .
This form of locomotion , known as placed Lucy firmly within the family .

Admired from Afar

Johanson named Lucy's species afarensis , which means 'southern ape of Afar' , after the Ethiopian region where Hadar is located .
3 . 5 million years ago , Australopithecus afarensis foraged for , nuts and seeds in a mixture of and woodland . It may also have obtained animal protein from termites or birds' " .

This article was adapted from :

www . bbc . co . uk / sn / prehistoric_life / human / human_evolution / mother_of_man1 . shtm l

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