May 3, 2019
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Here's Lucy! Well, a cast of the famous 40% skeleton displayed at the Natural History Museum London.
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Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin  species Australopithecus afarensis. In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are marvelous" in the Amharic language.
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Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle  in Ethiopia, by paleo- anthropologists Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
