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Lucy é um fóssil de Australopithecus afarensis de 3,2 milhões de anos, descoberto em 1974 pelo professor Donald Johanson, um norte americano antropólogo e curador do museu de Cleveland de História Natural e pelo estudante Tom Gray em Hadar, no deserto de Afar, na Etiópia [1] quando uma equipe de arqueólogos fazia escavações.
1 de mar. de 2018 · Lucy pertencia a uma nova espécie que recebeu o nome científico de "Australopithecus afarensis". Ao estudar Lucy, os cientistas aprofundaram os seus conhecimentos sobre a evolução humana,...
Learn about the discovery and features of Lucy, the most complete early hominin fossil, and her species Australopithecus afarensis, which lived in East Africa 3.7 to 3 million years ago. See how Lucy's skeleton and other fossils reveal how this small-brained hominin walked upright and used tools.
AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit. 'you are marvellous'), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
Learn about the discovery, significance, and history of Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil found in Ethiopia in 1974. Explore how Lucy's skeleton, age, sex, and death are known and how to visit her replicas at IHO.
- Lucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. They had taken a Land Rover out that day to...
- Later in the night of November 24, there was much celebration and excitement over the discovery of what looked like a fairly complete hominid skele...
- The term hominid refers to a member of the zoological family Hominidae. Hominidae encompasses all species originating after the human/African ape a...
- As in a modern human’s skeleton, Lucy's bones are rife with evidence clearly pointing to bipedality. Her distal femur shows several traits unique t...
- There are several indicators which give a fair idea of her age. Her third molars (“wisdom teeth”) are erupted and slightly worn, indicating that sh...
- IHO has replicas of Lucy‘s bones, which were produced in the Institute‘s casting and molding laboratories. The “real” Lucy is stored in a specially...
- Although several hundred fragments of hominid bone were found at the Lucy site, there was no duplication of bones. A single duplication of even the...
27 de jun. de 2024 · Há quase 50 anos, os cientistas descobriram um crânio fossilizado quase completo e centenas de pedaços de ossos de um espécime feminino de 3,2 milhões de anos de Australopithecus afarensis, frequentemente descrito como “a mãe de todos nós”.
26 de jul. 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.
