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Science 24 November 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5240, pp. 1297 - 1298
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5240.1297b
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Research News

James Shreeve

A controversial new analysis of its pelvis indicates that "Lucy," the most famous human ancestor of all, was really a male. This gender-bender is also a species-splitter: If correct, the analysis implies that Lucy's 3-million-year-old species, Australopithecus afarensis, was actually two separate species.




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