Australopithecus afarensis is so important because it:
A) is the first hominin
B) is the oldest tool-using hominin
C) provides the most extensive fossil evidence of the early hominins
D) was Louis Leakey's first discovery and paved the way for most of the paleoanthropology conducted in Africa ever since
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