The skull of Australopithecus afarensis
โ Scribed by J. Michael Plavcan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1042-0533
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## Abstract The skeleton of __Australopithecus afarensis__ (A.L. 288โ1, better known as โLucyโ) is by far the most complete record of locomotor morphology of early hominids currently available. Even though researchers agree that the postcranial skeleton of Lucy shows morphological features indicati