Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

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Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

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Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much ...

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She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

The hominid was discovered on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeast Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by ...

Lucy was often described as "the grandmother of humanity", but more recent discoveries suggest she may have been more like an ...

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