Turns out, Lucy had company! Archaeologists finally ID’d the owner of that mysterious ancient foot found near her. It belonged to a totally different upright-walking hominin, not just a weird Lucy. This means our evolutionary neighborhood was way more crowded and competitive than we thought. Imagine multiple human-ish species strutting around East Africa, each with their own survival hacks. Evolution was basically a wild experiment, not a straight line to us! #Science #Archaeology #HumanEvolution