A reconstruction of the well-known hominin Lucy
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100 years in the past, on 28 November 1924, anthropologist Raymond Dart opened a crate. It held a consignment of fossils from Taung, a quarry in South Africa, together with a small cranium that appeared part-ape, part-human. Dart named it “Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa”. It was the primary Australopithecus specimen to be recognized, and the primary proof that early people advanced in…
