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AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh ( Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit. 'you are marvellous'), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of ...
En 1974 el paleoantropólogo Donald Johanson y sus colaboradores Yves Coppens y Maurice Taieb descubrieron en África Oriental una Australopithecus afarensis. Donald Johanson, entre hueso y hueso, tarareaba una canción de los Beatles que era su preferida: “Lucy”. Tuvo una iluminación y decidió llamar así al esqueleto.
19 de sept. de 2013 · Appearing next to a full--scale recreation of the famous "Lucy" skeleton (Australopithecus afarensis) in Tusher African Hall, this computer animation compare...
Australopithecus afarensis discoveries in the 1970s, including Lucy and the Laetoli fooprints, confirmed our ancient relatives were bipedal - walking upright on two legs - before big brains evolved. Replicas are on display in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery , alongside the skull of Kenyanthropus platyops , another hominin species that lived in East Africa during the same period.
La multinacional estadounidense Google ha dedicado su doodle del día a homenajear el descubrimiento de Lucy la australopithecus, uno de los homínidos clave para comprender la evolución humana.
24 de abr. de 2014 · Lucy was a hominid that lived 3.2 million years ago, and her anatomy provides surprising insights into our ancestors. A member of the species Australopithecu...
Lucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. They had taken a Land Rover out that day to map in another locality. After a long, hot morning of mapping and surveying for fossils, they decided to head back to the vehicle. Johanson suggested taking an alternate route back to the Land Rover ...
