New view of human evolution? 3.2 million-year-old fossil foot bone supports humanlike bipedalism in Lucy's species

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 21:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A fossilized foot bone recovered from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows that by 3.2 million years ago human ancestors walked bipedally with a modern human-like foot. These findings support the hypothesis that A. afarensis was primarily an upright walker, as opposed to a more versatile creature that also moved through the trees.

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