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3 de may. de 2024 · Lucy, nickname for a remarkably complete (40 percent intact) hominin skeleton found by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at at the fossil site Hadar in Ethiopia on Nov. 24, 1974, and dated to 3.2 million years ago.
Hace 5 días · Lucy vivió por tierras del oriente africano hace algo más de 3 millones de años y en 1978 se le asignó el nombre científico de Australopithecus afarensis. Los huesos lanzaron al joven Johanson a la cima de la paleoantropología dominada en esos años por el clan de los Leakey, que venía haciendo importantes descubrimientos en el estudio de la evolución humana.
3 de may. de 2024 · Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, many kinds of hominins walked the same African landscapes as Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis. She was once considered the ancestor of everything that came after her, including Homo. But new fossils have emerged as competitors, and one, A. anamensis, as a potential ancestor.
16 de abr. de 2024 · April 16, 2024. 1 min read. Poem: ‘Lucy’. Science in meter and verse. By Lucille Lang Day. Masha Foya. May 2024 Issue. Arts. Edited by Dava Sobel. A petite fossilized being of the species....
Hace 6 días · Donald Johanson (born June 28, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American paleoanthropologist best known for his discovery of “ Lucy,” one of the most complete skeletons of Australopithecus afarensis known, in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974. Johanson was the only child of Swedish immigrants Carl Johanson and Sally Johnson.
Hace 4 días · Australopithecus (/ ˌ ɒ s t r ə l ə ˈ p ɪ θ ɪ k ə s,-l oʊ-/, OS-trə-lə-PITH-i-kəs, -loh-; from Latin australis 'southern', and Ancient Greek πίθηκος (pithekos) 'ape') is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Perhaps the most famous specimen of Australopithecus is “ Lucy,” a remarkably preserved fossilized skeleton from Ethiopia that has been dated to 3.2 mya. As characterized by the fossil evidence, members of Australopithecus bore a combination of humanlike and apelike traits.
