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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 ...
Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa.The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not take place until the 1970s.
Lucy, a 40%-complete skeleton of a female A. afarensis, discovered 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia; Selam, remains of a three-year-old A. afarensis female, discovered in Dikika, Ethiopia; MRD-VP-1/1, first skull of A. anamensis discovered in 2016 in Afar, Ethiopia. STS 5 (Mrs. Ples), the most complete skull of an A. africanus ever found in South Africa
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human evolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46786-5. (Note: this book contains very useful, information dense chapters on primate evolution in general, and human evolution in particular, including fossil history). Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us Human ...
These estimates are outside the range of normal modern human height and considerably shorter than the average adult height of even the smallest modern humans, such as the Mbenga and Mbuti at 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), [68] Twa, Semang at 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for adult women of the Malay Peninsula, [69] or the Andamanese at also 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for ...
Here is the height difference of every US president and first lady we could find. George and Martha Washington: 1 foot 2 inches Shayanne Gal and Samantha Lee/Business Insider
The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.
This means the arm was 86.9% the length of the leg. She is the first and only early hominin specimen to definitively show that the arms were almost all long as the legs. Nonetheless, these proportion are more similar to humans than non-human apes, with humans at 64.5–78%, chimpanzees about 100%, gorillas 100–125%, and orangutans 135–150.9%.