Study Reveals Early Human Ancestors Were Surprisingly Slow Runners
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Study Reveals Early Human Ancestors Were Surprisingly Slow Runners
For years, scientists have debated how exactly Lucy, one of humanity’s most famous ancestors, moved.Lucy refers to a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an early bipedal ancestor of modern humans who lived approximately 3.2 million years ago. Standing at just 1.1 meters (3 feet 7 inches) tall, she was both bipedal and partially arboreal. Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia’s Afar region by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson an…
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