The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...

The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was ...

Another member of the group shouted out, they ought to call their ancient find Lucy. And in the half-century since ... it was widely thought in the anthropological community that the fossils from ...

While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as Lucy, she remains a paleoanthropological ... I’d always wanted to go to Africa to find something and by golly this was something.

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. As a kid growing up ... “The common conception is that we’re finding the grandmother [of humanity], and we’re never finding that ...

Another member of the group shouted out, they ought to call their ancient find Lucy. And in the half-century ... the anthropological community that the fossils from South Africa found way back ...

CNN: How did the fossil get the name Lucy? Johanson: Because of the delicate ... and people began launching their own expeditions and finding even more exciting things in some ways.