The real “Lucy” skeleton, the famous 3.2-million-year-old specimen of Australopithecus afarensis ... seeks to settle the decades-old debate over whether Lucy walked upright, like a modern-day human, ...

Ultimately she is a hominid, a family that contains existing species like chimpanzees and humans. What does the Latin name mean? Australopithecus means “southern ape”. Afarensis means “from ...

Perhaps the world's most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape "Lucy" was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found, though her remains are only about 40 percent ...