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Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to ... afarensis to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later species of the genus Homo species.

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later species of the ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago ... This means that it was probably not physiologically possible for Australopithecus ...

Raymond Dart, who in 1924 discovered the first fossil of a human ancestor in Africa, popularized the image of our early ancestors hunting meat to survive on the African savanna. Writing in the ...