New discoveries shed light on human evolution

Lucy's daughter
The skull of a hominid child known as "Lucy's Daughter." Palaeontologists recently uncovered the nearly complete skeleton of the child, who belonged to the branch of the human tree known as australopithecus afarensis and lived nearly three million years ago.
Photo by VILEM BISCHOF/AFP/Getty Images

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