The discovery that rewrote human evolution theory turns 50
- On November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson found "a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy" in Ethiopia, leading to the discovery of Lucy's skeleton.
- Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, changed perceptions of human evolution forever.
- Lucy's finding, along with other data, helped develop a better theory of how our species came to be and is now seen as a mascot for evolution.
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'Deep inside, something told me I had found the earliest human ancestor. I went numb.'
Fifty years ago, the discovery of a partial skeleton amid the barren desert landscape of northern Ethiopia transformed our understanding of where humans came from, and how we developed into Homo sapiens. “Lucy” was first spotted on November 24 1974 by the American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his student assistant Tom Gray. Named after the Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, a popular song in the their team’s camp at the time, it …
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