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7 gru 2017 · After 20 years of slow, careful excavation, the world's most complete skeleton of an ancient human ancestor has just been unveiled. It belongs to the genus Australopithecus, and it's 3.67 million years old.
It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Lucy is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago.
28 cze 2022 · Fossils of early human ancestors from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old – making them a million years older than previously suspected and shaking up the way...
15 paź 2024 · When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton.
13 cze 2023 · Researchers have digitally reconstructed the leg muscles of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.2 million years ago, revealing they could stand and walk upright like modern humans.
27 cze 2024 · Dated to 3.2 million years ago, Lucy was the oldest and most complete human ancestor ever found at the time of her discovery. Two features set humans apart from all other primates: big brains and...
2 lut 2021 · But fragments of 300,000-year-old skulls, jaws, teeth and other fossils found at Jebel Irhoud, a rich site also home to advanced stone tools, are the oldest Homo sapiens remains yet...
