Print your own 3D Lucy parts to work out how the famous hominid died

Now you can have your very own 3D printout of some of the bones of Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis, who is, let's face it, the Beyoncé of fossils. Lucy, a very early human ancestor discovered in 1974, has long been at the center of a fierce debate about whether our ancestors ever lived in trees. Open-source scans of the 3.18 million-year-old hominid's arm, shoulder and knee bones are now available to accompany a paper that hypothesizes that Lucy died falling from a tree.

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• Forensics
• Fossils
• Evolution
• 3D Printing

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