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• Fossil discovery fills gap in human evolution - Science- msnbc.com
Teeth and bones from the hand, foot and thigh are among the fragments of the Australopithecus anamensis fossil found in the Middle Awash region in northeastern Ethiopia.
• Scientists piece together Lucy’s family tree - LiveScience- msnbc ...
Lucy and her kind, Australopithecus afarensis, stood upright and walked on two feet, though they might also have been agile tree-climbers. Anthropologists have suspected an ...
• Oldest known baby fossil found - Science- msnbc.com
The fossilized skull of a 3-year-old female from the species Australopithecus afarensis exhibits some characteristics of apes as well as humans.
• The Middle Awash sample of Australopithecus an... - Photos ...
The Middle Awash sample of Australopithecus anamensis fossil hominids includes teeth, upper jaws, hand and foot bones, vertebral fragments, a thigh bone, and fragments of ... The ...
• Why pregnant women don't topple over - Pregnancy- msnbc.com
When the researchers looked back at fossil records of human ancestors, including the oldest spines that go back 2 million years to our predecessor, Australopithecus, they found a ...

» Australopithecus Species - Short description of the Australopithecus species at The Evolution of Man website.
» Discovery of Early Hominids - A brief history of australopithecines and how they were found.
» Lucy - Short description of the fossil remains of an Australopithecine child from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) website.
» Phylogenesis of Australopithecus - Explains the classification of zoological objects and the taxonomy of fossil collections. [English and Russian]