(1) Alternatively, Homo habilis may stand on the evolutionary line between the gracile Australopithecines and Homo erectus.(2) Fossil evidence links human ancestry with populations that evolved from modern gracile morphology in Africa 130,000-160,000 years ago.(3) This was also the age of ‘Lucy,’ Australopithecus afarensis, and the radiation of robust and gracile hominids which produced the genus Homo.(4) She was gracile , and her curves seemed liquid smooth.(5) Some are stocky, others are slender and gracile in body shape.(6) Males are generally smaller, more gracile and more angular than females.(7) She is gracile and delightful.(8) But today, there are eight putative species of early gracile hominid - and a number of the most recent and most ancient have characteristics that might force a re-interpretation of our earliest ancestry.
