Lucy

Lucy was found by Donald C. Johanson Ph.D. and Tom Gray on November 30th 1974, in the Hadar Region in Ethiopia and was named after the song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”. She is special because she lived just less than 3.18 million years and because about 40% of her skeleton was found. Lucy walked on two legs and was about 3’6” tall and weighed 60 to 65 Lb.. Lucy was a part of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The …

…brain was not much bigger than a chimpanzee's . She was an ape with a human looking body but underdeveloped skull and brain. We obviously still had a long way to come in the 3.18 million years between then and now, but Lucy already showed clear differences from the normal apes. The shape of her hip bones and her upright posture means that Lucy is closer to us than the chimpanzee, the closest living relative of man.