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Hi, Lucy. It's good to see your face. To link a couple of the earliest posts mentioning you.

"New fossil reveals face of 'Lucy' ancestor who lived almost 4 million years ago"

2011 - for the evolutionarily impaired, the "theory" of evolution just got a refinement due a discovery by a kid.
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...Australopithecus means "southern ape," and is a group that includes the iconic fossil Lucy, while
sediba means "wellspring" in the South African language Sotho. [See images of human ancestor]
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2012 - Ancient hominins definitely used fire at least a million years ago
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Our ancestor Lucy shared her world with another, completely different humanoid species
http://io9.com/5897233/our-ancestor-lucy-shared-her-world-with-another-completely-different-humanoid-species
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Excerpt from article first above

The world's most famous hominin fossil is Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis that had a chimp-like brain but walked upright like a human. Now a new discovery reveals that Lucy actually shared her world with another, very different hominin species.

Both Lucy and this newly discovered fossil date back between 3.2 and 3.4 million years ago, and they both lived in the Afar region of what is now Ethiopia. Unlike Lucy, whose foot is essentially like that of humans, the toes of this new foot fossil, known as the Burtele partial foot, are clearly adapted to climb trees like a chimpanzee. It seems that, while Lucy and Australopithecus afarensis ruled the grounds of the Afar region, the trees belonged to the Burtele species.

The idea of two hominin species living in close quarters with each other isn't unknown. After all, we know humans and Neanderthals got close enough to interbreed — which, just in case it wasn't already 100% obvious, is very close indeed — but those were two essentially similar species that only really coexisted for about ten thousand years or so. This new discovery puts two fundamentally different kinds of hominin — one bipedal, the other arboreal — in the same region, potentially for hundreds of thousands of years. That's a pretty remarkable thought.

For a good overview of just what this find means, you can check out the video up top from Nature. Team member Dr. Bruce Latimer of Case Western discusses the find:
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