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in ScienceWhat’s the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor skeleton’s name, found in Ethiopia in 1974?
The name Lucy was given to a 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia in 1974. An expedition member suggested naming the skeleton after the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” played at the team camp repeatedly during the night of the discovery.