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Australopithecus
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| The latter portion of the book is dedicated to the human-fossil record, including that of pre-Australopithecines, Australopithecines, and Homo species. Ample evidence has shown that australopithecines were walking upright by this time, but the first traces of this skeleton - the four bones of an instep and beginning of the big toe - suggested that this species also was capable of grasping and climbing like a chimpanzee. This is reflected in the earliest of hominid societies, the australopithecines, from at least three-and-a-half million years ago. |
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