Lucy (Australopithecus)
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lucy-australopithecus-161-11789905
title:
Lucy (Australopithecus)
text:
AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, 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. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Lucy is an early australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago. The skeleton presents a sm
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
3.2-million-year-old fossilized hominid
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)
date created:
2006-08-21T18:17:36Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T09:09:24Z
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fields total:
13
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16