jan 1, 1974 - Lucy found

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Lucy (also AL 288-1), Is a collection of several hundreds of small pieces of fossilized bone found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974. They are 40% of a female early australopithecine or hominin and are dated to about 3.2 million years ago. The specimen is displayed as having long arms, short legs, an apelike chest and jaw, and a small brain but a relatively humanlike pelvis—that bipedal locomotion preceded the development of a larger (more humanlike) brain. She helped humans in proving and establishing the evolution theory. Lucy got her name from the song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” by the beatles which was played repeatedly in the expedition camp on the first day. Lucy is stored in a specially constructed safe in the Paleoanthropology Laboratories of the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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