Lucy's 3 million-year-old bones were found in 1974, ... 8 Interesting Facts About Lucy the Ancient Ape. Few australopithecines have shed light on human evolution quite like Lucy. By.

Lucy was shorter than the average human, reaching about 3.3 feet (1 meter) in height, had an ape-like face and a brain about one-third the size of a human brain.

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Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

Brain Lucy’s species had a small, apelike brain, about 20 percent larger than a chimpanzee’s 1/4 Pelvis Broader hips than a chimp, with an upper portion called the illium similar to a human ...

At 3.2 million years old, Lucy and her kind lived equidistant in time from our ape ancestors and contemporary humans. "She's our touchstone," Jeremy DeSilva , a paleoanthropologist at Dartmouth ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.

Lucy Kapetanich, who helped expose the monkey torture video ring after coming across the clips on YouTube, is seen at her home in Los Angeles. Joel Gunter/BBC ...

Prior to Lucy’s discovery in 1974, palaeoanthropologists were aware of only one other member of this group – Australopithecus africanus (meaning “southern ape of Africa”) – which had ...

Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

3D muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old “Lucy” walked ... 7 inches) tall and weighed about 29 kilograms (64 pounds). Her brain was small, like a chimpanzee's, but her pelvis ...