How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

A reconstruction of the famous hominin Lucy

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One hundred years ago, on 28 November 1924, anthropologist Raymond Dart opened a crate. It held a consignment of fossils from Taung, a quarry in South *******, including a small skull that looked part-ape, part-human. Dart named it “

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”. It was the first Australopithecus specimen to be identified, and the first evidence that early humans evolved in…

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