Lucy, the famed 3.2-million-year-old fossil that transformed scientific understanding of humanity’s origins, has been placed on display at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi.
The fossil preserves about 40 per cent of the skeleton of an early human ancestor. She was found at the Hadar site in Ethiopia’s Afar region in 1974 by a team led by American palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson, and has remained a scientific and cultural fixture
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