Tag: Lucy
September 23, 2016
A 3.2-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?
In 1974, the paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson led an expedition to Ethiopia to look for fossils of ancient human relatives. In an expanse of arid…
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UT Study Cracks Coldest Case: How the Most Famous Human Ancestor Died
Lucy, the most famous fossil of a human ancestor, probably died after falling from a tree, according to a study appearing in Nature led by…
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