The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull ... skeleton that had been found up to that time. Although Lucy's ...

and because almost half of her skeleton was found. (Most fossil finds are just fragments -- sometimes a tooth or a piece of a skull.) Johanson named her after the Beatles' song, "Lucy in the Sky ...

afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy ... as its skeleton helped to prove that bipedalism evolved before a large brain did. Another complete skull from an adult A. africanus was nicknamed ...

I found fragments of a skull, fragments of a jaw, and it was part of a skeleton.” Johanson, along with graduate student Tom Gray, had made one of the most important findings in paleontology ...

Donald Johanson who discovered the famous Lucy skeleton gave false information about the associated ... the former Director of the National Museum of Tanzania produced a human skull (Homo sapiens) ...

The discovery of Lucy ... skeleton called Lucy. Lucy was named after the 1967 song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, which was played loudly and repeatedly in the expedition camp ...

They consist of fossilised dental remains, skull fragments ... The 52 bone fragments, amounting to some 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton, was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and ...