| 11. | The skeletal anatomy combines primitive features known from australopithecines with features known from early hominins.
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| 12. | More commentary on the origins of bipedalism, the australopithecine Laetoli foot prints and Lucy.
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| 13. | Australopithecines have small canals like those of apes, suggesting that they couldn't talk.
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| 14. | Australopithecines became extinct after that time.
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| 15. | Fossils of the australopithecine foot show only partial arch, suggesting less of a spring capacity.
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| 16. | The " H . naledi " skulls are closer in cranial volume to australopithecine skulls.
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| 17. | But most paleoanthropologists place australopithecines in the direct lineage of human evolution, making Lucy a direct ancestor.
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| 18. | The Lucy specimen is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago.
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| 19. | It's the first time we have a virtually complete skeleton of an australopithecine, or ape man.
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| 20. | Within several hundred generations _ a short time in evolutionary terms _ the australopithecines had evolved into Homo erectus.
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