#OnThisDay in 1974, Lucy, a skeleton of an early human species, named after a song by the Beatles, was discovered in Ethiopia.
"When this small-bodied, small-brained hominin was discovered, it proved that our early human relatives habitually walked on two legs."
nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopit…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Au…
#lucy #evolution #science #humans #history #OTD
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113538366779966612
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopithecus-afarensis-lucy-species.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
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