Please help on my homework the relation between the dikika baby and theory of man's evolution..?

Question

how does the discovery of dikika baby explain the development of the origin of man? how does this discovery affect the old theory of man's evolution?

Answer 1

It is an A. Afarensis toddler that has characteristics of upright walking and climbing in trees.  It is possible that the characteristics are due to the recent ancestry of tree climbing apes.  It is also possible that she is ancestral to chimps and that they have retained some of the upright characteristics and are just starting to show the adaptations to moving back toward an arboreal habitat.  Clearly, the first scenario is more favored.