The discovery of 'Selam' the daughter of the human ancestor today

Because the ' Selam ' skull grows slowly, it means the mass of the brain will be large. That's what monkeys can't get. Two thigh bones show Selam has stood up and walked quite straight.

32 years ago, scientists discovered fossil remains dating back 3.2 million years of a woman in the Afar region, northeastern Ethiopia. This woman soon became world famous, even the screen star was not equal. Her name is Lucy and the reason why she is famous because the scientific world thinks Lucy is the ancestor of humans today.

But now Lucy must share the glory with the ' other '. On October 26, Zeresenay Alemseged, Professor Don Johanson's " disciple ", who had discovered Lucy's fossil remains - was careful to find a precious piece of gold like a piece of fossil bone. ' Australopithecus afarensis ', of a child whose newspaper named ' Lucy's daughter '.

The girl's name is ' Selam ' in Amharic meaning ' peace ', also comes from the fossilized land of the distant ancestors of the human race, the Afar region in the northeast of Ethiopia, Africa. In 2000, one of Professor Alemseged's colleagues found Selam's fossil cheekbones near Lucy's location to the south.

GS Alemseged introduced Selam skull bone.(Photo: Reuters)

A few years after the sand began to erode, Alemseged gently and carefully took Selam's fossil remains out of the sandstone layer. This is the most complete set of remains of human ancestors ever discovered, with skulls, chest, limbs, and shoulder blades, a very rare thing in the bones fossil.

The baby at the time of his death was about 3 years old, so Selam became very precious. Tim White, a paleontologist at Berkeley University, remarked: ' Millions of years ago, wild dogs used to eat dead bodies, so this area is so rare as a whole .'

Selam asserts that what science has long speculated is that A.afarensis type has gone straight like a human, with the lines of half-human primate half-stripped very distinctly. But the fingers are long and arched, showing the same type of Selam as climbing. But the skull is very special, it grows slowly, a stroke of the human skull. Because the skull grows slowly, it means the mass of the brain will be large. That's what monkeys can't get. Two thigh bones show Selam has stood up and walked quite straight.

There will still be many interesting features of Selam presented by Professor Alemseged's group later and certainly what ' Lucy's daughter ' presents will be even more shocking than Lucy's.

Giang Khue