The world's oldest known child has been discovered in East Africa in an area known appropriately as the Cradle of Humanity. The 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in north Ethiopia's badlands along the Great Rift Valley.
"Selam," or "Lucy's baby," or "Dikika baby"—as the A. afarensis three-year-old has been variously nicknamed—spent millions of years encased in rock in Ethiopia's Dikika region, where the shady forests she knew have long since given way to desert.
Lucy, a 3.2 million-year old fossil skeleton of a human ancestor, was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. The fossil locality at Hadar where the pieces of Lucy's skeleton were discovered is known to scientists as Afar Locality 288 (A.L.
Move over, Lucy.
The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.
The rare fossil, representing 40% of a skeleton belonging to a female Australopithecus afarensis, was named “Lucy,” for the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” Now, researchers are using the skeleton to figure out how this ancient human relative moved 3.2 million years ago.
When told that his wife's swollen belly could affect the program's future, an incredulous Desi demanded, “What is so wrong if she has a baby in the show as Lucy Ricardo?” Executives suggested that Lucy could hide the pregnancy by sitting behind chairs or tables. “Not Lucy,” he responded.
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 complete (photo of Lucy's bones).
Nov 24, 1974 CE: 'Lucy' Discovered in Africa. On November 24, 1974, fossils of one of the oldest known human ancestors, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen nicknamed “Lucy,” were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia.
The female skeleton, nicknamed Ardi, is 4.4 million years old, 1.2 million years older than the skeleton of Lucy, or Australopithecus afarensis, the most famous and, until now, the earliest hominid skeleton ever found.
Known as the Omo I remains, the fossils were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, within the East African Rift valley between 1967 and 1974 - a region where humanity is believed to have evolved - and scientists have been attempting to date them ever since.
Fossils from Ethiopia suggest that the famous skeleton "Lucy" had cousins living nearby. The famous human relative known as "Lucy" has reigned alone as queen of an important time and place in human evolution: Ethiopia about 3.2 million years ago, roughly the time when the first stone tools appear in East Africa.
Lucy probably ate fruits, plants, roots, seeds, insects, and possibly small animals. Scientists can hypothesize about an animal's diet by looking at the cusp patterns and lines scratched into the surface of a tooth when an animal eats. Why is Lucy so famous? Lucy is the best preserved and most complete specimen of Au.
New analysis suggests that Lucy—one of the most complete hominin fossils ever found—met a tragic end three million years ago. Lucy, our renowned hominin relative, died some 3.18 million years ago after plummeting from a tree, according to researchers from the University of Texas at Austin.
"Pregnant" was considered too suggestive.
And while Ball was pregnant during the start of Season 1, her character wasn't. CBS executives allowed Lucy to be pregnant in Season 2 when the TV star was expecting her second child, but they weren't okay with "pregnant" being said by any of the characters.
Lucille Ball was the first woman to appear pregnant on one of the three major television networks. Desilu Studios consulted with network censors and leaders from different religious organizations to determine that Lucy Ricardo would be described as “expecting” rather than “pregnant.”
So, to help things along until the hens start getting into action, Lucy and Ethel decide to buy a bunch of eggs and sneak them out to the hen house. Fred's out back, so they can't just take the eggs in the cartons. They decide instead to hide the eggs in their clothes.
A shortened form of Lucille and Lucia, little Lucy is an adorable name full of pizzazz.
Of Latin origin, Lucy is predominatly a girls name, meaning 'bright' or 'born at daybreak' and is growing in popilarity as a boys name.
Lucy is a feminine name of Latin origin. It is derived from the masculine "Lucius," meaning "light." Lucy is also a family surname that was brought over to England by Norman invaders in the 11th century.
In 1972, Ball broke her right leg in a skiing accident and as a result, spent much of the 1972–1973 season in a full-leg cast (this was written into the show, with the Lucy Carter character also breaking her leg).
Combined with its small brain size of only 275ml this finding surprisingly indicates that the brain growth of Australopithecus afarensis was slow as in modern humans.
Compared to chimpanzees, Lucy had relatively smaller incisor teeth, but larger molar teeth, suggesting that she did little to dentally prepare her food, and spent more time intensively chewing or breaking down the food6.
Mitochondrial Eve is a female biological ancestor of humans, aptly named the mother of all humans.
While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s.