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The face apparently came from a male. Its middle and lower parts jut forward, while Lucy’s species had a flatter mid-face, a step toward humans’ flat faces.
The fossil also shows the beginning of the massive and robust faces found in Australopithecus, built to withstand strains from chewing tough food, researchers said.A facial reconstruction of the newly discovered hominin cranium. The fossil was found in 2016, in what was once sand deposited in a river delta on the shore of lake. At the time the creature lived, the area was largely dry shrubland with some trees.evidently walked upright, but there’s no evidence that it flaked stone to make tools, said study co-author
, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.of Lehman College in New York called the fossil “beautiful” and said the researchers did an impressive job of reconstructing it digitally to help determine its place in the evolutionary tree.
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