They detail their own reconstruction of the Lucy fossil, bringing into relief their methods, the relationship between art and science, and decisions made to supplement gaps in scientific knowledge.

The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ... This was a team effort, with reconstructions across multiple labs. The simulations were run on the ...

The archeological community has widely accepted the hypothesis that the early hominin species Australopithecus africanus (e.g. Mrs. Ples) descended from A. afarensis (e.g. Lucy). However, “[t]he ...

Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is closely related to chimpanzees ... This was a team effort, with reconstructions ...

Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is a shared ... This was a team effort, with reconstructions across multiple ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...