The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...
Fifty years ago, Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years ...
The hominid was discovered on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeast Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by ...
The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...
She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family."The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline ...
Her species provided compelling evidence that upright walking evolved before large brains in human evolution.
The legacy of Lucy, the ‘Australopithecus’ that changed our idea of human evolution 50 years ago
The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
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