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Paris, FRANCE: TO GO WITH STORY : Science-palaeontology - Stunning fossil find sheds light on Lucy and her tribe Picture released 19 September 2006 by the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritages (ARCCH) shows the skull of a hominid child known as Australopithecus afarensis. Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago. The fossilised remains of the child, estimated to have died at the age of three and who was probably a female, shed light on a hotly disputed branch of the human tree known as Australopithecus afarensis. AFP PHOTO / VILEM BISCHOF / NATURE / ?Zeresenay Alemseged and Copyright Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritages (ARCCH)? (Photo credit should read VILEM BISCHOF/AFP/Getty Images)
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Paris, FRANCE: TO GO WITH STORY : Science-palaeontology - Stunning fossil find sheds light on Lucy and her tribe Picture released 19 September 2006 by the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritages (ARCCH) shows the skull of a hominid child known as Australopithecus afarensis. Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago. The fossilised remains of the child, estimated to have died at the age of three and who was probably a female, shed light on a hotly disputed branch of the human tree known as Australopithecus afarensis. AFP PHOTO / VILEM BISCHOF / NATURE / ?Zeresenay Alemseged and Copyright Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritages (ARCCH)? (Photo credit should read VILEM BISCHOF/AFP/Getty Images)