Lucy, formally known as A.L. 288-1, was about as tall as a kindergartner, with a body that blended features of apes and humans, including a pelvis with broader hips than a chimp.
Her discovery on Nov. 24, 1974, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, pushed things back nearly a million years, a major leap in scientific knowledge that still resonates a half-century later.
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