Talk:*History 8 Human Origins from Bone From a Dry Sea

1. What is so significant about Lucy? What does she tell us about human origins? Bipedalism?

Lucy is the benchmark by which all other human ancestoral fossils are judged. She opened up a major new window in the discovery of origins because until her discovery, there were few hominid fossils dating back to over 3 million years, so Lucy offered many new incites into our past. She tells us about a new ancestoral species called Austrolopithecus Afarensis. She also tells us about bipedalism because she was hunted and only avoided her predators by climbing trees with her long limbs and her bone structure clearly pointed to bipedlity, which led to bipedalism in other species of homind as well. Overall, Lucy serves as an ideal image of our ancestoral past and gives us many clues about it.

Sources: http://www.becominghuman.org/ https://iho.asu.edu/about/lucys-story#second

-Eloise Reasoner