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The very first fossils of this species -- found by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at Hadar in 1973 -- were the parts of a knee joint. Like a human knee, it could "lock," allowing its owner to ...

This diagram called 'The March of Progress ... But one bone in the collection — the knee — changed our idea of human evolution forever. The knee bone was more similar to that of a modern ...