What do our ape ancestors tell us about ourselves?

Australopithecus Afarensis, Australopithecus Sediba, two australopithecines that seem to have diverged on the basis of tool use. But how advanced was Australopithecus Afarensis? And was its evolution expedited by competition with another hominin contemporary that is also proposed to have used tools, known as Homo Kenyanthropus?

Is it possible that we are the descendants of a separate line of meat-eating apes that lived alongside another branch of mostly herbivorous bipeds and that our affinity for acquiring meat is the main driving force in our evolution?

What do our most ancient ancestors say about our past?

TMP
The Millennial Perspective

Sources:
https://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/Publications/Highlights/2011/imaging/ima7
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177
https://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/Publications/Highlights/2011/imaging/ima7
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/kenyanthropus-platyops
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopithecus-afarensis-lucy-species.html
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/australopithecus-and-kin-145077614/
https://elifesciences.org/articles/19568https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87Wdt044b0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP0RSDwBnt0&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyX1rwjnVNU

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