Australopithecus afarensis

But scientific nomenclature cannot just be wished away, and Mary was fated to hear the name Australopithecus afarensis for many years to come.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

But scientific nomenclature cannot just be wished away, and Mary was fated to hear the name Australopithecus afarensis for many years to come.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The name Australopithecus afarensis was valid, he added, and it described not only Mary’s Laetoli hominid fossils but the creature who left the footprints as well.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The name Australopithecus afarensis was valid, he added, and it described not only Mary’s Laetoli hominid fossils but the creature who left the footprints as well.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

It seems quite likely that the species we call Australopithecus afarensis– Lucy’s species – included our ancestors of three million years ago.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

It seems quite likely that the species we call Australopithecus afarensis– Lucy’s species – included our ancestors of three million years ago.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Walking upright happened before we developed the big brains that made us fully human - that much was made clear back in 1974 with the discovery in Ethiopia of 3.2-million-year-old Lucy formally know as Australopithecus afarensis, who walked on two legs but had a relatively tiny skull and long, apelike arms.

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Pethica argues that it was not the need to hunt that prompted hominid evolution Australopithecus afarensis, he points out, lacked the dental adaptation to eat meat and probably lived primarily off seeds, tubers, and vegetation.

Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

Pethica argues that it was not the need to hunt that prompted hominid evolution Australopithecus afarensis, he points out, lacked the dental adaptation to eat meat and probably lived primarily off seeds, tubers, and vegetation.

Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

Pethica argues that it was not the need to hunt that prompted hominid evolution Australopithecus afarensis, he points out, lacked the dental adaptation to eat meat and probably lived primarily off seeds, tubers, and vegetation.

Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010