Lucy, a fossil hominin who lived about 3.2 million years ago, would have been impossible for modern humans to win in a race.
Even the average human of our species would have nearly killed her in the 100 meter dash, and Usain Bolt, the current world record holder for this distance, would have killed Lucy somewhere between 50 and 80 meters. I would have broken it.
Carl Bates and his colleagues at the University of Liverpool in the UK sought to determine for the first time how fast Lucy’s species…
(Tag Translate) Human Evolution
