New species of early human was Lucy’s neighbour in Africa

Quoted: “If Haile-Selassie is right, I think it’s only reasonable to conclude that some unknown number of Australopithecus afarensis skeletal remains actually belong to this new species instead,” says John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This means that everything that has been written about variation, function and the anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis from fragmentary remains must now be in doubt.”