Lucy is the nickname of a 3.2 million-year-old fossilized skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, a human ancestor, that was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia.
“Lucy” is the fossil skeleton that forever changed our understanding of where we came from. Fifty years after her discovery in Africa, scientists are still unraveling how Lucy and her species fit into the bigger picture of human evolution.
Using the bones discovered by Dr. Donald Johanson, scientists have been able to trace human evolution back further than ever before. Explore the fascinating history behind the revolutionary discovery and its direct connection to Arizona.
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