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# Google Doodle Celebrates Lucy The Australopithecus

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## Video: Google Doodle Celebrates Lucy The Australopithecus

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_Published 2015-11-24. Google honors one of anthropology's biggest finds._


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## Transcript

Google celebrated the 41st anniversary of the discovery of Lucy with a play on the ascent of man picture. Lucy is the nickname given to the first skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis ever discovered. The find helped scientists connect the dots between apes that walked on all fours and humans who walked up right. 40 % of Lucy's skeleton was intact when it was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 which isn't that bad considering that it's about 3. 2 million years old. Scientists discovered that Lucy walked upright by examining her knee structure and the curvature of her spine. That's why Google's Doodle shows Lucy, named after a Beatles song, walking upright between an ape and a human.

Lucy is currently in a safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia near where she was first unearthed. But the public can view only plaster replicas of the skeleton.

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