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Lucy, found in Ethiopia in 1974, is the best-preserved example of Australopithecus, a genus of hominids. "It opens it up to people who, ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29058647/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/digital-s...
Updated May. 23, 2013
Richmond reports that the bone resembles thigh bones from early human ancestors known as Australopithecus and Paranthropus which lived 2 million to 3 million years ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23728658/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/when-did-...
Updated May. 24, 2013
The Hobbit's wrist looked like that of early human relatives, such as Australopithecus, but the key ancestral candidate now is Homo erectus, "Upright Man."http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/11/16466928-new-bone-fossils-help-bring...
Updated May. 11, 2013
... likely a species called Australopithecus afarensis (of the "Lucy" fossil fame), walked in an even less ape-ish way than some humans do today. ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43827760/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/footprint...
Updated 8 hours ago
The teeth studied were from the genera Homo and the earlier Australopithecus.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20149502/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/early-hum...
Updated 5 hours ago
... to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy's species, going back 3.1 million years) and Ardipithecus ramidus (the oldest human-linked fossil species, ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/11/02/5397036-can-fingers-point-to-sex-h...
Updated May. 21, 2013
... so there is little doubt that it preyed upon our distant ancestors, especially since remains of Australopithecus (a now-extinct genus of hominids) ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47462726/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/largest-k...
Updated May. 22, 2013
Lucy and the rest of her species (named Australopithecus afarensis, Latin for "southern ape of Afar") were not human, in everyday terms or technical terms.http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2008/10/06/4350245-puzzling-over-pre-humans?l...
Updated 17 hours ago
Belonging to a 3- to 4-year-old Australopithecus africanus , ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47329669/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/our-ances...
Updated May. 20, 2013
Thanks to Lucy, who is classified as Australopithecus afarensis, scientists were first able to establish that human ancestors walked upright before evolving a big brain.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20429225/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/lucy-exhi...
