Reconstruction of the famous human Lucy
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One hundred years ago, on November 28, 1924, anthropologist Raymond Dart opened a wooden box. It housed fossils commissioned by a South African quarry town, including a small skull that appeared to be half ape and half human. Darts calls it “Australopithecus africanus: South African man-ape”.It was the first Australopithecus Specimens to be identified and the first evidence that early humans evolved…
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