Lucy, a fossil hominin that lived about 3.2 million years ago, would have been no match for modern humans in a running race.
Even an average member of our species would drop dead in the 100m sprint, and Usain Bolt, the current world record holder for that distance, would beat Lucy by between 50 and 80m.
Karl Bates At the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and his colleagues, for the first time, they have tried to determine the extent of Lucy’s species, …
