eed t to knos dimensions. Strip out all tbones, and total you are left is called a on. Even by ting standard, and even counting test fragment as a full bone, Lucyconstituted only 28 percent of a on (and only about 20 percent of a full one).
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ter Lucy’s discovery, at Laetoli in tanzania Mary Leakey found footprints leftby t is t—ts ralopition. ter for a distance ofover ty-ters.
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they were bipedal apes.”
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