"skeleton" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- With the discovery of a species called Australopithecus afarensis, based on the famous Lucy skeleton, the most likely identity of these prehistoric strollers was established.
- The specimen is older and much more complete than the "Lucy" skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974.
- This represents the earliest indisputable evidence of hominid bipedality, and it is usually attributed to Australopithecus afarensis, the species to which the famous "Lucy" skeleton belonged.
- For two decades, the earliest known hominid was a species represented most famously by the Lucy skeleton.
- Of the four fossil species examined, only Australopithecus afarensis, the species associated with the famous "Lucy" skeleton, failed the rule of thumb.
- It was there in 1973 that he discovered the three-million-year-old Lucy skeleton, then the earliest known hominid, which was given the scientific name of Australopithecus afarensis.
- From the Lucy skeleton, it is clear that A. afarensis was apelike but walked upright, much like modern humans, and apparently had been doing so for a long time.
- They found it in early Homo specimens, but not in Australopithecus, the genus that lived more than three million years ago and included the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton.
- Such a controversy has swirled around the Lucy skeleton.
- The famous "Lucy" skeleton had everything paleontologists could hope for - except a head.
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