The Finding Of Lucy

Finding of Lucy Lucy was a 3.2 million old Australopithecus Afarensis skeleton to ever be found. She was found in Ethiopia on November 24 1974. They first spotted the forearm bone and then they found some other parts of her body as well. Only 40% of her bones have been found yet. Lucy’s discovery is very important to the world because it shows everybody how their ancestors might have looked in the past. It is also important because it helps us understand our past and where we came from. In this essay I want to show that the finding of Lucy was important and how it changed the way we thought about our past. On November 27 1974 Donald and his student Tom Grey were both on the plains when their eyes fell upon a fossil. They