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Australopithecus ‘Lucy’ had company

Our famous ancestor coexisted with three other species of proto-humans in Africa between 3.8 and 3.3 million years ago. Relations between them are a mystery that scientists are trying to unravel.

In 1974, the discovery of "Lucy" was an important milestone in palaeoanthropology, which pushed the record of hominids 3 million years further back and proved the antiquity of the gait similar to that of humans.

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