AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. From Wikipedia
The 1974 unearthing of Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, revolutionized our understanding of early human ancestors and continues to raise new questions.
