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We then started putting muscles onto the bones of the pelvis and lower limbs of Australopithecus and a modern human model, using the open-source software Gaitsym.

The Australopithecus africanus specimen is the oldest hominin analyzed for sex using palaeoproteomics.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.

“But Australopithecus was the first genuinely new piece of evidence. And it clearly showed that this idea, Darwin’s idea of human origins, was backward,” says Hawks.