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Fossil discoveries challenge Lucy's place as 'mother of us all'

News from Science says fossil discoveries have pushed the human-chimp ancestor split millions of years further back.

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News from Science says Don Johanson and student Tom Gray found Lucy, a 40%-complete skeleton, in 1974. Some once thought her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived close to the split between human and chimpanzee ancestors. Discoveries of older and similarly aged hominins over the following 50 years have pushed that split millions of years further back, challenging Lucy's place as 'mother of us all.'

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News from Science@NewsfromScienceIn 1974, paleoanthropologist Don Johanson and student Tom Gray unearthed a 40% complete skeleton of an early human ancestor, fundamentally changing the human family tree. The specimen acquired a nickname that persisted: Lucy, after the Beatles song playing at the fossil hunter’s camp—“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” At 3.2 million years old, some thought her species, Australopithecus afarensis, was close to when the ancestor of humans had split from the ancestor of chimpanzees. But in the past 50 years, discoveries of hominins both older and the same age as Lucy have pushed that split millions of years deeper in time, and challenged her position as mother of us all. Learn more on #NationalFossilDay: https://scim.ag/4hyKA3T1h
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    News from Science@NewsfromScienceIn 1974, paleoanthropologist Don Johanson and student Tom Gray unearthed a 40% complete skeleton of an early human ancestor, fundamentally changing the human family tree. The specimen acquired a nickname that persisted: Lucy, after the Beatles song playing at the fossil hunter’s camp—“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” At 3.2 million years old, some thought her species, Australopithecus afarensis, was close to when the ancestor of humans had split from the ancestor of chimpanzees. But in the past 50 years, discoveries of hominins both older and the same age as Lucy have pushed that split millions of years deeper in time, and challenged her position as mother of us all. Learn more on #NationalFossilDay: https://scim.ag/4hyKA3T1h
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