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, ...

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 ...

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 ...