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Article: Fossils put new face on Lucy's species. (Australopithecus afarensis skull pieced together)
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- April 2, 1994
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Investigators have recovered and pieced 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 up at the Hadar site in Ethiopia.
Fieldwork at Hadar in the 1970s yielded the first A. afarensisremains, including the partial female skeleton known as Lucy..
William H. Kimbel and Donald C. Johanson, both anthropologists at the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif., and Yoel Rak, an anatomist at Tel Aviv University describe the new finds in the March 31 NATURE.
"There is ...