Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, For Walking (4 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, For Walking (4 of 6)

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This is the Hadar field site in Hadar, Ethiopia. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Feb. 11, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Carol V. Ward at University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., and colleagues was titled, “Complete Fourth Metatarsal and Arches in the Foot of Australopithecus afarensis."

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Image courtesy of Kimberly A. Congdon

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