A cast of Lucy on display in the Museum’s Human Evolution gallery. Her small skull, long arms and conical rib cage are like an ape’s, but she has a more human-like spine, pelvis and knee due to walking upright.
Is there a skeleton older than Lucy?
The female skeleton, nicknamed Ardi, is 4.4 million years old, 1.2 million years older than the skeleton of Lucy, or Australopithecus afarensis, the most famous and, until now, the earliest hominid skeleton ever found.
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3.1 million-year-old Lucy’s bones tell story of how she died
Did the Romans fail to conquer Scotland?What human species is Lucy?
When this small-bodied, small-brained hominin was discovered, it proved that our early human relatives habitually walked on two legs. Its story began to take shape in late November 1974 in Ethiopia, with the discovery of the skeleton of a small female, nicknamed Lucy.
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What was Lucy brain size?
Fossil remains of Lucy’s braincase are fragmentary, limiting the reconstruction of her brain size. However, brain size estimates from other members of her species suggest that Lucy’s brain was probably about the size of a modern chimpanzee’s (range between 387 – 550 cc; average 446 cc)
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What did Lucy the first human eat?
Lucy probably ate a mix of foods, including ripe fruits, nuts, and tubers from both the forest and savanna. Incisor teeth are typically used to prepare the food for mastication (think about biting off a piece of an apple), and molar teeth are used to masticate, or chew, the food into a small pulp that can be swallowed.
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Is Lucy The Missing Link?
Despite what evolutionists say and how they imagine Lucy in drawings, this incredible creature was likely a small gorilla or maybe a chimpanzee—but certainly not a missing link or an evolutionary ancestor to humans.
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Who came before Lucy?
The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
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How do we know Lucy’s skeleton is a single individual?
How do we know that her skeleton is from a single individual? Although several hundred fragments of hominid bone were found at the Lucy site, there was no duplication of bones.
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What was significant about Lucy skeleton?
Because her skeleton was so complete, Lucy gave us an unprecedented picture of her kind. In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal hominids have confirmed that conclusion.
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How tall was Lucy the skeleton?
The body height of Australopithecus afarensis A.L. 288-1 (“Lucy”) has recently been estimated and calculated as between 1 m to 1.06 m; other estimates give ca. 1.20 m. In addition, it is often stated that her relative leg length was shorter than that of modern humans.
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What is the oldest body ever found?
Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they’re around 233,000 years old.
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Is Lucy still the oldest human?
Move over, Lucy.
32 Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.
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Is the Lucy skull real?
Lucy, a 3.2 million-year old fossil skeleton of a human ancestor, was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. The fossil locality at Hadar where the pieces of Lucy’s skeleton were discovered is known to scientists as Afar Locality 288 (A.L. 288).
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What did the first human Lucy look like?
She stood up straight, with feet, knees and hips that are similar to ours. If you saw her walking from afar, you would think Lucy was human by her silhouette. But up close, she had a small head, a brain comparable in size to a chimpanzee’s, longer arms and hair covering her body.
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What was the size of Lucy’s skull?
Cranial specimens
32 The cranial evidence recovered from Lucy is far less derived than her postcranium. Her neurocranium is small and primitive, while she possesses more spatulate canines than other apes. The cranial capacity was about 375 to 500 cubic centimeters.
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What was Lucy’s gender?
A controversial new analysis of its pelvis indicates that “Lucy,” the most famous human ancestor of all, was really a male. This gender-bender is also a species-splitter: If correct, the analysis implies that Lucy’s 3-million-year-old species, Australopithecus afarensis, was actually two separate species.
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Do we have DNA from Lucy?
Unfortunately, with current technology there is no way to detect any DNA on skeletal remains as old as Lucy. Lucy dates back to between 3 and 3.2 million years ago.
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Who was the first human on earth?
Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago.
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How do we know Lucy was a female?
Despite the uncertainties, Lovejoy said Lucy was most likely female. “The reason we know she’s female is that she’s the smallest of the species that’s ever been found,” he told NBC News. Lucy is thought to have stood about 3-foot-6 (107 centimeters) in height.
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What would Lucy have looked like?
Lucy was a small-bodied female that probably stood about 3”6” (107cm)
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. Scientists can tell that Lucy is female because the anatomy of her pelvis generally resembles that of female modern humans.
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How far apart were Lucy’s bones found?
The one found far away was found two to three kilometers away from the skull and 60-70 meters deeper in the strata.
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tall and weighed roughly 60 pounds (27.3 kg)
How tall was Lucy the first human?
Lucy, about 3.2 million years old, stood only a meter (3.5 feet) tall. She had powerful arms and long, curved toes that paleontologists think allowed her to climb trees as well as walk upright.
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What did Lucy skeleton look like?
What did Lucy look like? With a mixture of ape and human features—including long dangling arms but pelvic, spine, foot, and leg bones suited to walking upright—slender Lucy stood three and a half feet (107 centimeters) tall.
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Was Lucy a partial skeleton?
In 1974, the world was stunned by the discovery of “Lucy,” the partial skeleton of a human ancestor that walked upright—and still spent time in the trees—3.2 million years ago. Later discoveries revealed her species, scattered throughout eastern Africa, had brains bigger than chimpanzees.
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How do we know Lucy walked upright?
Lucy’s pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs. When her crushed remains were carefully reconstructed by anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy, her pelvis looked much like a modern woman’s. Broad, fan-shaped bones on either side, called the iliac blades, curve to form a pelvic basin.
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