rom about time as Lucy and raises ty t it or and Lucy betugenensis, t to be 6 millionyears old, making it t found—but only for a brief of C bones) found a 7 million years old, it an early ape andtures and quite primitivebut t, and t.
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o use tools, albeit very simple ones. It ive creature, muc its brain