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Events on Sunday 24 November 1974 1
1974Lucy fossil discoveredAustralopithecus afarensis skeleton found in EthiopiaPaleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered the partial skeleton of an early hominin at Hadar, Ethiopia. Nicknamed Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis reshaped understanding of human origins.