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'Lucy' Reconstructed: Secrets of Ancient Human Ancestor Revealed
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The completed 3D muscle model (left) and the muscle attachment areas used to build it (right). (Ashleigh Wiseman)The Lucy fossil was discovered in the 1970s. While it was already well accepted that A. afarensis could walk, debate continues about whether this bipedalism was more of a chimp-style waddle or something akin to the upright gait seen in modern humans. Wiseman used the latest computer modeling tools to reconstruct the soft tissue that didn't survive with the fossil.
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