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#OnThisDay in 1974, Lucy, a skeleton of an early human species, named after a song by the Beatles, was discovered in Ethiopia.

"When this small-bodied, small-brained hominin was discovered, it proved that our early human relatives habitually walked on two legs."

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopithecus-afarensis-lucy-species.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

#lucy #evolution #science #humans #history #OTD

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Did early human species have LSD?