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Of special interest is the Misliya-1 fossil, an upper jawbone discovered in 2002, [4] and at first dated to "possibly 150,000 years ago" and classified as "early modern Homo sapiens" (EMHS). [5] In January 2018, the date of the fossil has been revised to between 177,000 and 194,000 years ago (95% CI).
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.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, as it is known today, was founded in 1920. It was located in an office of the Lennox Building. [5] At the end of the following year, the museum moved to a mansion on Euclid Avenue, a part of Cleveland's millionaires' row. [6] This location was first opened to the public June 24, 1922. [5]
Each of the asteroids Lucy is set to fly by differ in size and color. The mission borrows its name from the Lucy fossil, the remains of an ancient human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 ...
The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution. It was founded by the team of paleoanthropologists that discovered Lucy , and became affiliated with Arizona State University in 1997. [ 4 ]
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Paleoanthropologists unearthed human fossils suggesting that the species left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.