Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

Johanson and Gray's discovery of Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis, in 1974, remains a significant breakthrough in human paleontology.

Lucy's skeleton, totaling around 40%, provided crucial insights into the hominin species, estimated to be about 3.2 million years old.

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