genetic analysis

Popular renderings of Lucy tend to dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur. Dave Einsel/Getty Images         By Stacy Keltner, Kennesaw State University     Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” […]