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Did you know that Lucy is perhaps the most famous human ancestor in the world, she is 3.2 million years old and was the first skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis to be found, although her remains are only 40% complete.<\/p>\n

Discovered in 1974, it was for about 20 years the first known ancestral human species.<\/p>\n

Facts about Lucy<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  1. On\u00a0November 24, 1974, Lucy was found in Africa<\/strong>, near the town of Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia.<\/li>\n
  2. She\u00a0was discovered\u00a0by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson<\/strong>\u00a0of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Tom Gray.<\/li>\n
  3. Lucy got her name from a\u00a0Beatles song titled \u201cLucy in the Sky with Diamonds\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0which was heard at the camp the night they first discovered the fossils.<\/li>\n
  4. She was 1.1 meters tall<\/strong>\u00a0and weighed about 64 pounds.<\/li>\n
  5. Lucy\u2019s size, 1.1 meters tall and weighing 64 pounds confirm that\u00a0she is a woman since later fossil discoveries<\/strong>\u00a0established that the males of A. afarensis were much larger than the females.<\/li>\n
  6. Lucy was the\u00a0first Australopithecus afarensis to be discovered,<\/strong>\u00a0but to date there have been more than 300 discoveries of the species.<\/li>\n
  7. In 2016, a group of researchers from the University of Texas concluded that she fell from a great height, although\u00a0it has never been officially determined how Lucy died.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Her skeleton was taken from Ethiopia and around the U.S. from 2007 to 2013, it is not currently available for public view.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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