Does Lucy come under pre humans or early man?

Question

I have to write a paper for Anthropology and dont know which category Lucy would go under.

Answer 1

Lucy was basically one of the many bipedal apes & didn't deserve the Homo prefix. Homo hablis is considered the 1st deserving the Homo prefix... some think it should have been reserved for Homo erectus, but the main stream sees hablis as the 1st Homo.

Answer 2

Lucy would certainly be a "prehuman". the question is what you mean by "early man"?

That term is often used popularly for any ancient hominid, not Homo sapiens. If you mean this, then yes.

If by the term you mean "Member of the genus Homo", then the answer is no, Lucy is an Australopithicine.

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Answer 3

Lucy (A. afarensis) was a pre-human...

Early man begins with H. hablis (2.4 million years ago)...

Even so, Homo hablis was still less than 4' feet tall, had no hyoid bone (for articulate speech), and had a brain capacity half the size of modern humans...

That being said, Lucy, at 3.3 million years ago, was definitely pre-human...

Answer 4

As people are telling you, she was well before modern man. Compare us at 150,000 years ago and her species A. afarensis at 3.9-2.9 million years ago. Since Lucy was one of the only hominins at her time period and since she has many derived traits, it is believed that our population evolved from A. afarensis. Notable about Lucy is she is one fossils from which we have a nearly full postcranium. Additionally she is VERY small, much smaller than her fellow A. afarensis. Anthropologists know she was muture, because her bones were fully fused.

Answer 5

Yes, she's considered the first homonoid, which is said to be the first incarnation of modern humans.

They looked more like apes though.