Lucy (hominid)
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AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40% of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensi
Reconstruction of the fossil skeleton of "Lucy" the Australopithecus afarensis
Side view of cast of Lucy in the Naturmuseum Senckenberg
An exact replica of Lucy at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The original is kept in a safe vault at that museum.
Cast of Lucy at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City
Donald Johanson
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Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopi
Lucy (hominid)
…of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Lucy is an early australopithecine and lived around 3.2 million years ago. The…
Donald Johanson