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Little 'Lucy' fossil found

Toddler hominin has arms for swinging and legs for walking.

The 3.3-million-year-old bones of a female toddler from Ethiopia are telling scientists a story about the route human ancestors took from the trees to the ground.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on September 20, 2006 06:52 PM |

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I think the tendency is to lean toward descending from an ape line, instead of from a humanoid line whereby there was a branch leading to apelike creatures. Prolongued tree dwellers would have evolved a ridge on the scapula.

Posted by: ronford | September 20, 2006 07:51 PM

This doesnt give any info


Posted by: Julie Lowers | February 1, 2007 06:49 AM

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