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Monday, October 29
October 29, 2012

The ape-like shoulder blades of a skeleton thought to have belonged to a young Australopithecus afarensis child suggest that these early hominids could climb trees. Scientists have been debating whether or not A. afarensis was capable of climbing, in addition to walking upright on the ground, based upon the famous 3.2 million-year-old partial skeleton known […]

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