Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago. A. afarensis was slenderly built, like the younger Australopithecus africanus . It is thought...
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Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy (also given a second (Amharic) name: dinqineš , or “Dinkenesh,” meaning “You are beautiful” or "you are wonderful") is the common name of AL 288-1, the nearly 40% complete skeleton of an Aust...
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Australopithecus afarensis - Australopithecus afarensis is one of our oldest hominid ancestors. ... Australopithecus afarensis | return to species list...
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Inhabiting eastern Africa between four and three million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis was a long-lived species that may have given rise to the several lineages of early human that appeared in both eastern and southern Africa between two and three million years ago.
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Australopithecus afarensis: Composite Reconstruction ... The cast to the left and below represents a composite reconstruction from several specimens of the early human species Australopithecus afarensis. The fossil material was recovered from the Hadar Formation in the Afar depression of Ethiopia.
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Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy, Donald Johanson, Afar Triangle, Awash, Ethiopia ... Returning to the Afar region, he found Lucy and, in 1975, found an amazing array of bones of thirteen Australopithecus afarensis individuals, now known as The First Family (Johanson, Edey 1980). Believing himself to be "lucky",
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis; Orrorin tugenensis; Ardipithecus ramidus; Australopithecus anamensis; Australopithecus afarensis; Kenyanthropus platyops; Australopithecus africanus; Australopithecus garhi; Australopithecus aethiopicus; Australopithecus robustus;
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Australopithecus afarensis was deemed a species and subsequently named by Tim White and Don Johanson in 1978. Dated to between 4 million and 2.7 million years old, afarensis remains have been consistently found along East Africa's Northern Rift Valley.
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3.5-2.9 Million Years Ago ... This particular species is special for the almost complete 3.2 million-year old skeleton found by Donald Johanson in 1973(1). The skeleton's name is "Lucy," (picture to the right) and has been very important in helping us understand the people of the past. ... Australopithecus anamensis...
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