“Today, November 24, Google is celebrating the 41st anniversary of the discovery of a pile of bones by paleoanthropologists working in Ethiopia with a Google Doodle.
“This pile of bones belonged to a skeleton that would shine some light on the way in which our species evolved from tree dwelling apes to the tall statured and intelligent human beings we are today.
“Nicknamed ‘Lucy’, after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the several hundred pieces of fossilised bone made up almost half of the full skeleton of a previously unknown hominid species.
“Scientists named the new human ancestral species Australopithecus afarensis.”
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