There are hundreds of similar and related fossils. Many found and validated since 1987. If Lucy was a “one of” there would be many grounds to question her relationships but there are too many similar fossil creatures to toss her to the side. No one can yet definitely tie her to us, that’s not how it works but until someone else comes around in her time period with more human like attributes, Lucy is it.
[[Lucy’s actual remains did not included hands or feet and reconstructions are commonly presented with human or near-human hands and feet despite the fact that other skeletons of the same creature have hands and feet which are clearly those of an ape, with curved fingers for moving about in trees.]]
[[The story actually gets better (much better) from there if you can believe that, with evolutionists claiming that a deer or other animal trampled “Lucy”’s hips and pelvis, breaking them into pieces, and that the pieces congealed by chances into the conformation of those of an ape, and deriving the true picture of Lucy’s hips and pelvis by making a plaster cast, breaking it up with a saw, and then rearranging the pieces into a more human conformation. ]]
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