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Lucy's 3 million-year-old bones were found in 1974, ... 8 Interesting Facts About Lucy the Ancient Ape. Few australopithecines have shed light on human evolution quite like Lucy. By.
Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.
At 3.2 million years old, Lucy and her kind lived equidistant in time from our ape ancestors and contemporary humans. "She's our touchstone," Jeremy DeSilva , a paleoanthropologist at Dartmouth ...
Lucy was shorter than the average human, reaching about 3.3 feet (1 meter) in height, had an ape-like face and a brain about one-third the size of a human brain.
Prior to Lucy’s discovery in 1974, palaeoanthropologists were aware of only one other member of this group – Australopithecus africanus (meaning “southern ape of Africa”) – which had ...
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.
Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...
The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...
Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...