reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, aka "Lucy." Credit: Ashleigh Wiseman The resulting model included 36 muscles in each leg. Per Wiseman ...

Wiseman used scans of Lucy’s fossil and data from humans to build a three dimensional model of the leg and pelvis muscles of Australopithecus afarensis. After collecting data from MRI and CT ...

Researchers believe the extra muscle power in the legs ... and still had the physical capabilities to head into the trees. "Australopithecus afarensis would have roamed areas of open wooded ...

Dr Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modelled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis using scans of ‘Lucy’: the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s.

reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’. Credit: Dr Ashleigh Wiseman A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and ...

new 3D muscle modeling reveals. The finding bolsters a growing consensus among researchers that Australopithecus afarensis — the extinct species to which Lucy belongs — walked erect rather ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis – a small hominin that lived more than three ...

"Australopithecus afarensis would have roamed areas of open wooded grassland as well as more dense forests in East Africa around 3 to 4 million years ago. These reconstructions of Lucy’s muscles ...

In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose partial remains ... a virtual reconstruction of her leg and pelvic muscles — which are not preserved in fossils ...

Three-dimensional volumetric muscle reconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and limb, with estimations of limb leverage. Royal Society Open Science , 2023; 10 (6) DOI: 10.1098/rsos ...

Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modeled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis using scans of 'Lucy': the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s.