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This types is amongst the most commonly known of y our ancestors because of an amount of major discoveries including a pair of fossil footprints and a fossil that is fairly complete of the female nicknamed ‘Lucy’.
A resconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis skull according to many specimens.
This cast of a Australopithecus afarensis hand shows the characteristic long, curved hand bones. These are far more such as the fingers of residing apes than they truly are contemporary hands that are human. The cross section regarding the hand bones can also be squarish, showing either a partly arboreal life style or that this will be a primitive function retained when they relocated into a far more lifestyle that is terrestrial.
