“Lucy” dates to 3.2 MYA. She was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. She is generally believed to be the oldest discovered ancestor to modern Homo sapiens. “Lucy” stood at only 3 ½ feet tall even though she was a mature Australopithecus afarensis. Her jaw shows features of both apes and early hominids, the shape showing similarity to some apes, with large front teeth and parallel-sided tooth rows, and the size of the canines being intermediate between apes and later hominids. The brain capacity was small, but the pelvis shape and size indicates bipedalism. This added to the evidence that bipedalism preceeded an increase in brain size in ancient hominids.
Two versions of the same skull are available with the reconstructed areas in either light or dark brown finish, with the jaw and skull fragments in contrasting fossil color. Shown here is the dark version. Stand available
This museum quality replica is cast from an exactingly-produced sculpture, based on photographs, descriptions and precise measurements of original fossils.
Bone Clones® Replica
