To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit."you are marvelous") is globally iconic as a representation of early bipedalism (the ...

It seems that Australopithecus afarensis-- the early hominin ... Using the shape of Lucy’s bones and data on the muscular ...

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 and ... (Any remnant of the past, not just bones, can be considered a fossil.) 3.6 million years ago, a volcano ...