What Lucy Taught Us About Ourselves | NOVA | PBS

Discovered 50 years ago, the Lucy skeleton changed scientists’ understanding of human evolution.

The discovery of Lucy, a 3-million-year-old skeleton, in the Ethiopian desert dramatically changed the way scientists thought about how modern humans evolved.

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