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Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.
Australopithecus is a member of the subtribe Australopithecina, [4] [5] ... tall. It is possible that ... Cast of the skeleton of Lucy, an A. afarensis.
Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 ... A. afarensis had a tall face, ... Lucy measured perhaps 105 ...
A bipedal hominin, Lucy stood about three and a half feet tall; her bipedalism supported Raymond Dart's theory that australopithecines walked upright. The whole team including Johanson concluded from Lucy's rib that she ate a plant-based diet and from her curved finger bones that she was probably still at home in trees.
cast of the skeleton of Lucy the Australopithecus ; Title: cast of the skeleton of Lucy the Australopithecus Object type ... height. 2,880 pixel. width. 5,120 pixel.
MH1 (left), A. afarensis Lucy (centre), and MH2 (right) MH1 is 130 cm (4 ft 3 in) tall [17] MH1 and MH2 were estimated to have been roughly the same size, about 30–36 kg (66–79 lb). This is smaller than many contemporary hominins, but reasonable for an australopithecine. [18]
AL 129-1 is a fossilized knee joint of the species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia by Donald Johanson in November 1973. [2] [3] [4] It is estimated to be 3.4 million years old. [1] Its characteristics include an elliptical Lateral condyle and an oblique femoral shaft like that found in humans, indicating bipedalism.