<P> Lucy is the common name of AL 288 - 1 , several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis . In Ethiopia , the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh , which means `` you are marvelous '' in the Amharic language . Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa , near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia , by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History . </P>
<P> Lucy is the common name of AL 288 - 1 , several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis . In Ethiopia , the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh , which means `` you are marvelous '' in the Amharic language . Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa , near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia , by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History . </P>
lucy discovered in ethiopia is an example of the species
lucy discovered in ethiopia is an example of the species
the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis
the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis