Australopithecus afarensis

Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.7 and 2.9 million years ago.^{[citation needed]} A. afarensis was slenderly built, like the younger Australopithecus africanus. It is thought that A. afarensis was ancestral to both the genus Australopithecus and the genus Homo, which includes the modern human species, Homo sapiens. The most famous fossil is the partial skeleton named Lucy (3.2 million years old) by Donald Johanson and colleagues, after they played the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds over and over in celebration of their find.^{[1][2][3](p234)}

Australopithecus afarensis Temporal range: Pliocene
Cast of the remains of "Lucy"
Ìṣètò onísáyẹ́nsì
Ìjọba:	Animalia
Ará:	Chordata
Ẹgbẹ́:	Mammalia
Ìtò:	Primates
Ìdílé:	Hominidae
Subfamily:	Homininae
Ìbátan:	Australopithecus
Irú:	A. afarensis
Ìfúnlórúkọ méjì
Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978

Itokasi

1. Johanson & Maitland 1981, pp. 283–297
2. Johanson, D.C. (2009). "Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)". In Michael Ruse & Joseph Travis. Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 693–697. ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3.
3. Wood, B.A. (1994). "Evolution of australopithecines". In Jones, S., Martin, R. & Pilbeam, D.. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-3270-3. Also ISBN 0-521-46786-1 (paperback).