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Lucy (Australopithecus)
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
. Lucy was discovered in 1974 near the village
Hadar
in the
Awash Valley
of the
Afar Triangle
in
Ethiopia
by
paleoanthropologist
Donald Johanson
.
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