28 THE MYSTERIOUS BIPED
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tural ory in Ne of t depicts life-sized re-creations of a male and a female African plain. t t suggest striking feature oft t arm protectively around t is atender and affecting gesture, suggestive of close bonding.
tableau is done ion t it is easy to overlook tion tvirtually everytprints is imaginary. Almost every external aspect of tional. e can’t even say t t ain t tralopito beaustralopites.
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they were bipedal apes.”
Until very recently it olicreatures, but noies aren’t so sure. Altain pures (teetance) suggest a possible link bets of tralopitomy are more troubling. In tinct attersall and Scz point outt tion of t of t not of tralopit line bet ed an australopitoan ape femur p. t,t not only our ancestor, s even much of a walker.
“Lucy and locomote in anytstattersall. “Only ravel bets o do so by tomies.” Joaccept t of ten, “rees as it is for modern humans.”
Matters greill in 2001 and 2002 ing family at Laketurkana in Kenya and called Kenyantyops (“Kenyan flat