Surely you know Lucy, don’t you?

Marble sculpture „Santa Lucia“, showing Australopithecus afarensis Lucy, 2019 (image credit: team of pithecus.org), background: James Webb’s First Deep Field Image, 2022 (image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) — Marble sculpture „Santa Lucia“, showing *Australopithecus afarensis* Lucy under a veil, 2019 (image credit: team of pithecus.org), background: James Webb’s First Deep Field Image, 2022 (image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

Lucy is a female Australopithecus afarensis. She is about 25 years old. When we found her remains, it was a sensation in science! Click here to raise her veil and find out more about the first steps towards humanity:

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(A big thanks to all artists & scientists who contributed their works to this project: Of course, your names and research papers fill the image credits and footnotes. — Please keep exploring!)