His subsequent expedition led to the discovery of Lucy, a 40 percent complete skeleton of a new species of hominid, now known as Australopithecus afarensis. The final piece of the puzzle was a ...

She is the most controversial, convention-defying, weirdest-looking fossil hominid ever found ... bone analysts to have ever wrestled with the puzzle of how humans and our ancestors evolved.

“The puzzle of early hominid food choices looks more and more complicated as we add pieces to it,” Ungar says.

Figure 6: Cladogram depicting the majority-rule consensus of 17 equally parsimonious trees that result from a phylogenetic analysis of the features preserved in the Au. deyiremeda hypodigm.