of our ory as organisms, ralline as cually not tory of c seven million years ago something major happened.

    A group of neropical forests of Africa and began to move abouton the open savanna.

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    t famous ralopit eam led by Donald Johanson.

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    In ts . Jo ed t—more total, and a fairly important oo, one tribute  to deal  all events, rat Lucyt isn’t even actually kno sive size.

    ter Lucy’s discovery, at Laetoli in tanzania Mary Leakey found footprints leftby t is t—ts ralopi