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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. [1] [2] [3] Lucy is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago.
Lucy ( AL 288-1) es el conjunto de fragmentos óseos pertenecientes al esqueleto de un homínido de la especie Australopithecus afarensis, de 3,5 a 3,2 millones de años de antigüedad, 2 descubierto por el equipo formado por el estadounidense Donald Johanson y los franceses Yves Coppens y Maurice Taieb el 24 de noviembre de 1974, a 159 km de Adís...
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early hominins thanks to an extraordinary skeleton known as Lucy. Find out what we've learned about this species and important fossils. How do we know that Lucy and her species walked upright? How do we know Lucy was female? How did she die?
Evidence now strongly suggests that the Hadar material, as well as fossils from elsewhere in East Africa from the same time period, belong to a single, sexually dimorphic species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
28 de nov. de 2014 · Fue el niño de Taung, un cráneo fosilizado de un niño joven que vivió hace cerca de 2,8 millones de años en Taung, en el sur de África. Fue hallado en 1924 y analizado por el anatomista Raymond...
13 de jun. de 2023 · The rare fossil, representing 40% of a skeleton belonging to a female Australopithecus afarensis, was named “Lucy,” for the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” Now, researchers are using...
4 de abr. 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.
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.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin – a group that includes humans and our fossil relatives. Australopithecus afarensis lived from 3.8 million...
20 de sept. de 2006 · Get the basics on the first known Australopithecus afarensis why she's important, how a pop song provided her name, and whether she's really the mother of Lucy's baby.
