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AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit. 'you are marvellous'), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
27 cze 2024 · A photo of Lucy’s reconstructed skeleton next to a live four-year-old girl shows how human Lucy was – and how small.
As in a modern human’s skeleton, Lucy's bones are rife with evidence clearly pointing to bipedality. Her distal femur shows several traits unique to bipedality. The shaft is angled relative to the condyles (knee joint surfaces), which allows bipeds to balance on one leg at a time during locomotion.
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.
1 lip 2024 · These features can also be found in modern human skeletons. They allow us, as they enabled Lucy, to stand, walk and run on two legs without falling over – even when balanced on one foot in mid-stride.
7 gru 2017 · Little Foot is relatively small, standing about 135 centimetres (4 feet, 4 inches). She's a female skeleton, as determined by her pelvic structure, face and teeth. It's thought that the bones may have belonged to a young girl who met her demise falling down a shaft into the caves below.
13 cze 2023 · Once all the pieces were assembled, scientists were able to reconstruct Lucy, revealing that she stood about 1.1 meters (3 feet, 7 inches) tall and weighed about 29 kilograms (64 pounds).
