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    A new reconstruction of Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis skeleton that is 3.2 million years old, shows a trimmer figure with a distinct neck, narrower waistline, and arched foot. Earlier reconstructions based on limited fossils had given her a cone-shaped chest and potbelly, implying she retained tree-dwelling adaptations like chimpanzees. However, recently discovered additional rib fossils and a foot bone show she had a barrel-shaped chest like humans and an arched foot, suggesting she spent significant time on the ground while still climbing and sleeping in trees. The new reconstruction was unveiled as part of an exhibit on human evolution.

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    A new reconstruction of Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis skeleton that is 3.2 million years old, shows a trimmer figure with a distinct neck, narrower waistline, and arched foot. Earlier reconstructions based on limited fossils had given her a cone-shaped chest and potbelly, implying she retained tree-dwelling adaptations like chimpanzees. However, recently discovered additional rib fossils and a foot bone show she had a barrel-shaped chest like humans and an arched foot, suggesting she spent significant time on the ground while still climbing and sleeping in trees. The new reconstruction was unveiled as part of an exhibit on human evolution.

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    Shot - Lucy's Svelte Look

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    Carlos Bellatin
    A new reconstruction of Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis skeleton that is 3.2 million years old, shows a trimmer figure with a distinct neck, narrower waistline, and arched foot. Earlier reconstructions based on limited fossils had given her a cone-shaped chest and potbelly, implying she retained tree-dwelling adaptations like chimpanzees. However, recently discovered additional rib fossils and a foot bone show she had a barrel-shaped chest like humans and an arched foot, suggesting she spent significant time on the ground while still climbing and sleeping in trees. The new reconstruction was unveiled as part of an exhibit on human evolution.

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    <em>Science</em>Shot: Lucy's Svelte Look

    http://news.sciencemag.org/print/paleontology/2013/09/scienceshot-lucys...

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    Article Title: ScienceShot: Lucy's Svelte Look September 23, 2013 Ann Gibbons Elizabeth Culotta

    Reconstruction by John Gurche/courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History The famous skeleton Lucy has had a makeover, thanks to newly discovered fossils. A reconstruction of the 3.2-million-year-old hominin emerged Friday with a trimmer figure, showing off a distinct neck, a narrower waistline, and arched foot. Earlier reconstructions, relying on scanty fossil rib bones and living African apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas, had given her a cone-shaped thorax and potbelly. That implied that her species, Australopithecus afarensis, had retained adaptations for moving in the trees a lot like chimps. But in the past few years, researchers have found additional ribs and a new foot bone of A. afarensis. The ribs are curved, which translates to a barrel-shaped thorax like modern humans, paleoanthropologist Carol Ward of the University of Missouri, Columbia, showed in a symposium [1] on Friday. And the foot bone shows a distinct arch. This suggests that Lucy and her kin spent plenty of time on the ground, although they probably still climbed and slept in trees. The reconstruction, overseen by paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and created by artist John Gurche, was unveiled Friday [2] as part of an exhibit on human evolution at the museum. See more Science [3]Shots [3].

    Links: [1] http://cmnh.org/site/ClassesandPrograms/SpecialEvents/Lucy.aspx [2] http://www.cmnh.org/site/AboutUs/PressRoom/PhotosArtLogo/Human.aspx [3] http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceshots

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