{"id":182046,"date":"2024-02-05T01:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/rare-3-8-million-year-old-skull-recasts-origins-of-iconic-lucy-fossil"},"modified":"2024-02-05T01:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T07:15:04","slug":"rare-3-8-million-year-old-skull-recasts-origins-of-iconic-lucy-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/rare-3-8-million-year-old-skull-recasts-origins-of-iconic-lucy-fossil","title":{"rendered":"Rare 3.8-million-year-old skull recasts origins of iconic \u2018Lucy\u2019 fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-3-8-million-year-old-skull-recasts-origins-of-iconic-lucy-fossil3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The African skull aged 3.8 million years old is giving researchers a peek into humanity\u2019s evolutionary history, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery explains what the face of a possible ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy \u2013 the well-known Ethiopian skeleton discovered in the mid-1970s \u2013 may have looked like.<\/p>\n<p>This thesis has been published in the British journal Nature, which was reviewed by superiors. The fossil cranium represents a specimen from a time interval between 4.1 and 3.6 million years ago when early human ancestor fossils are extremely rare, researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African skull aged 3.8 million years old is giving researchers a peek into humanity\u2019s evolutionary history, a new study suggests. The discovery explains what the face of a possible ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy \u2013 the well-known Ethiopian skeleton discovered in the mid-1970s \u2013 may have looked like. This thesis has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}