Australopithecus Research Paper

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This creature, which was around approximately three million years ago, was the first to be bipedal. There is supposed evidence that was discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s. A female skeleton was dug up that matched up with the description of the australopithecus species perfectly. This skeleton is called Lucy. Lucy is shown as a bipedal creature with extremely human-like bone structure in her body. The face of the australopithecus was still kind of flat which makes sense because they had smaller brains than the ones humans have today. After the australopithecus era, the creatures started to drift away from their ape looks and start to look more like man today. As evolution moves toward the modern man we are introduced to the homo erectus and the homo neanderthal. They were basically cavemen. They had an improved posture and a mental delay. Though most importantly, these creatures developed a hunter-gatherer society and they made and used tools. This is a remarkable improvement to man’s societal habits which did not necessarily exist until the homo erectus/homo neanderthal