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From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relativesLucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...
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What 'Lucy,' One of the World's Most Important Fossils, Has Taught Scientists in the 50 Years Since Her DiscoveryAbout 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...
Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...
“Lucy is one of the first celebrity fossils. Everyone knows ... characteristics in the skull and limbs that appeared more ape-like. East Africa seemed like a good place to learn more, with ...
Assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, but best known by her simple nickname, Lucy had a mixture of ape and humanlike ... While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as ...
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