Simulations of hominin Lucy help show how long distance running evolved in modern humans

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Dec 20, 2024, 9:38 am198 ptsTrending
A team of natural scientists, musculoskeletal specialists, and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Netherlands, has found via simulations, that the famous early hominin Lucy, could run upright, but not nearly as quickly as modern humans.

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