“Lucy is one of the first celebrity fossils ... the importance of Africa to human evolution, with finds such as Homo habilis in Tanzania, named in 1964, emphasizing that there was more to ...

The serendipitous discoveries of the Taung Child’s cranium in 1924, the first evidence of the species Homo habilis at Olduvai Gorge in the 1960s, and Lucy’s 3-million-year-old bones ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil ... boisei walked upright. Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man," is apparently the first species to make and use primitive ...