Hominids: down-to-earth or up tree? (Australopithecus afarensis)

Science News | April 9, 1994| | Copyright

For more than 15 years, the way in which Lucy and other members of Australopithecus afarensis, the earliest known species in the human evolutionary family, moved about has sparked considerable debate.

One side argues that these hominids, which lived from about 4 million to 3 million years ago, preferred walking and spent only a small amount of time in the trees. New African fossil finds support this view (SN: 11/20/93, p.324).

However, evidence presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists' annual meeting in Denver last week depicted ...

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