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Vol 1 Ep 2 - The australopithecines ( Lucy )

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Ostralopithacus Offerensis, Tong Child

She was clearly not a human animal. Johanson categorized her as ostralopitacus offerensis. Ostralepithicus had been used to describe another earlier discovered animal. Offerensis was used to refer to the ofal region in which he had been discovered. So lucy is an aust lepithacus afferensis, and the late hony footprints are recorded to have been made by ostra lepithacus offerensi - tong child. But there are still experts who argue against it. After all, how can you truly tell with definitive confidence that a set of footprints would be made by an astralepithcus off

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