At the site of Hadar in Ethiopia, Donald Johanson (shown) and Tom Gray discover a nearly 40 percent complete hominin skeleton dating to 3.2 million years ago. Widely known as Lucy, the fossil is later classified as Australopithecus afarensis and claimed to be a direct ancestor of the genus Homo.
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