Lucy Coexisted with More Primitive Hominid in Ethiopia 3.4 Million Years Ago For decades, the skeletal remains of "Lucy," the famed Australopithecus afarensis, have stood as a singular icon of early human evolution, a beacon

Lucy Coexisted with More Primitive Hominid in Ethiopia 3.4 Million Years Ago

#Australopithecusafarensis #Australopithecusdeyiremeda #Ethiopia #humanevolution #Lucy

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1974, #Lucy was discovered in Hadar, #Ethiopia, and named for the Beatles song. Lucy is 40% of an #AustralopithecusAfarensis skeleton, and verified that #bipedalism preceded expansion of the hominin brain. Creationist nuts still can't deal with basic fact.

👣🌕🥾 . . . . . . #Atheism #atheist #nasa #carlsagan #Australopithecusafarensis #Australopithecus

#Australopithecusafarensis
#Africa #palaeontology

It would seem that the #LucyMission team named this asteroid #Donaldjohanson for a good reason - it certainly looks like Lucy's femur. Just sayin' #NASA #AustralopithecusAfarensis #fossil #SwRI

Replica of Laetoli Footprints 👣👣
(Chicago Field Museum)
#archaeology #prehistory #pliocene #australopithecusafarensis

#OTD #TDIH #November24, 1974: #DonaldJohanson & #TomGray discover the 40% complete #AustralopithecusAfarensis #Skeleton #AncestorOfHumans nicknamed #Lucy after #TheBeatles song #LucyInTheSkyWithDiamonds in the #AwashValley of #Ethiopia' #AfarDepression.
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