Article: These spines were made for walking.(australopithecus afarensis)(research)(Brief Article)

Article: Fossil Lucy shows her age. (age of Australopithecus ...
Science News;  January 15, 1994 ;     584 words ... ... Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif. Thus, Lucy represents the most recent known example of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, unearthed at Hadar. Walter places the First Family at approximately 3.2 million years old. The new ...

Article: Hominids: down-to-earth or up tree? (Australopithecus ...
Science News;  April 9, 1994 ;     700+ words ...For more than 15 years, the way in which Lucy and other members of Australopithecus afarensis, the earliest known species in the human evolutionary family, moved about has sparked considerable debate. One side argues that ...

Article: Fossils put new face on Lucy's species. (Australopithecus ...
Science News;  April 2, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... together the first nearly complete skull of the earliest known species in the human evolutionary family, Australopithecus afarensis. Fragments of the 3-million-year-old skull, as well as of a number of limbs and jawbones, turned ...

Article: La mujer más vieja del mundo.(restos fósiles de ...
Contenido;  May 1, 2005 ;     447 words ...El fsil humano ms antiguo corresponde a una joven Australopithecus afarensis, descubierto en 1974 en Etiopa por el equipo del paleontlogo estadunidense Donald Johanson. La noche del hallazgo, los cientficos ...

Article: Carnivora from the South Turkwel hominid site, northern Kenya
Journal of Paleontology;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... modern one. INTRODUCTION WARD ET AL. (1999) recently ... fragment, and teeth found by Ward et al. (1999) to be most like the homologous elements of Australopithecus afarensis and A. africanus. The geological ... stratigraphy were discussed by Ward et al. (1999), who considered ...

Article: ANTHROPOLOGY SPEAKER TO ADDRESS EARLY HUMAN ANCESTORS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 13, 2006 ;     395 words ... ... Anthropology Lecture Series. Ward will speak on the "Newest ... 3023 for more information. Ward's talk will focus on some ... Pleistocene primate fossils. Ward teaches anatomy in the Department ... hominid fossils, including Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus anamensis ...

Article: Researcher studies how we learned to walk like man.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  March 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Others, like anthropologists Carol Ward at the University of Missouri and Bruce ... hominid examples they are using," said Ward. (END OPTIONAL TRIM) Gebo, however ... implications of how these fossils walked." Australopithecus afarensis, a fossil nicknamed Lucy when 40 percent ...