Speaking of Don Johanson and his find of Lucy. Assume that you are in the laboratory analyzing the Lucy Australopithecus afarensis skeleton. You have also the complete skeletons of the chimpanzee and the modern human. a) Which are more similar to the human and show definitively that she is BIPEDAL? b) Which parts of the Lucy skeleton are more similar to the chimpanzee?
In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald C Johanson discovered a 3.2 million year old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that changed the understanding of human origin. It was found to be the skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, known to the world as Lucy.
There is considerable debate surrounding the locomotor behavior of A. afarensis. Some studies have suggested that A. afarensis is exclusively bipedal (using only two legs for walking), while others suggest that the creatures were partly arboreal (which means they had structures aiding to climb trees).
a) Similarities with humans that shows bipedalism
All these features suggest that A. afarensis was able to walk like modern humans and was quite an efficient bipedal walker over short distances.
b) Similarities with chimpanzee
Speaking of Don Johanson and his find of Lucy. Assume that you are in the laboratory...
Imagine you are analyzing the Lucy A. afarensis skeleton. You also have skeletons from a chimpanzee and a modern human. Which parts of Lucy are more similar to chimpanzee? Which parts are more similar to modern humans? Which parts of the Lucy skeleton give you the most information to note the similarities and the differences?
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