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The encounter with Donaldjohanson won't be Lucy's first visit to an asteroid. Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023.

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" — the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found — is seen at an exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in Addis Ababa on Oct. 24, 2006.

Lucy it was, and Johanson and his colleagues spent the next two weeks searching and excavating and screening more of her. They ended up with about 40% of a skeleton, 47 bones that would define ...

Johanson, who now holds the position of Virginia M. Ullman Chair in Human Origins at ASU's institute, still believes Lucy is the best candidate. She is “distantly related” to us, he said, but “crucial ...

In other words, Lucy’s strong knees and small skull showed our ancestors didn’t learn to carve tools or walk upright the moment our brains got big. Instead, they likely learned to walk before higher ...

This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called “Early Man” in 1965 explaining how we grew from apes to modern ...

Lucy's skeleton shows a combination of primitive features, such as a small braincase similar to those of non-human primates, and derived features, such as evidence of walking upright habitually ...

50 years after her discovery, Lucy, reconstructed here by artist John Gurche, remains an icon in paleoanthropology and pop culture as one of the most complete hominin fossils ever discovered ...

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.