Australopithecus afarensis

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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)

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