The logo of the Internet mega company turned to stone and interactively presented the evolution of man to represent the hominid Lucy .
But who is she?
Lucy is the fossilized skeleton belonging to the species Australopithecus afarensis , which would on Earth about 3.2 billion years old.
She was discovered by American Donald Johanson November 24, 1974 159 km. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
According to research, Lucy was a woman of almost a meter tall, aproxidamente about 20 years old, and had children .
Because of her frail body, he was equipped with a tiny skull and had bipedal ability and perfect joints to ponder walk on their hind legs.
This species evolved chimpanzee named Lucy was because their discoverers, after the shock after the discovery, were esuchando this song by The Beatles, “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”.
The appearance of Lucy for paleontology and the scientific community was not considered important, until in 1977 the discovery of a new hominid was published in a scientific revita.
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