Praga, 25 needle. (askanews) – The remains of Lucy, a ancestor of humanity who lived 3.2 million years ago arrive for the first time in Europe And whose partial skeleton was found in 1974 in Ethiopia. The fragments of bones, preserved in Addis Ababa, will be exhibited in Prague, at the Czech National Museum, together with those of an Australopiteco child who lived 100 thousand years before Lucy and was found in the same place.
Donald Johanson, paleoanthropologist, 82 years old, is the man who discovered the fossils of the hominide, one of the most important finds ever for the completeness of the skeleton: between the femur, teeth, skull and pelvis it is almost 40% of the total body: a revolution for the study of the first human specimens.
“It doesn’t matter where a branch of the human genealogical tree is grasped, the roots lead back to Africa – he explained – that’s where we separated for the first time from African monkeys, that’s where we got up for the first time, that’s where our brain grew for the first time, that’s where we started creating art and specialized stone tools, And that’s where we, as we define ourselves, Homo sapiens, have evolved“.
Lucy, who died between 11 and 13 years, was 1.1 meters high and weighed 29 kilos, It was called this because Johanson and his team found it were listening to “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” by the Beatles.
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