A representative model of the skeleton "Lucy" at the opening of the new permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Ethiopia on December 3, 2014. - AFP
PARIS, May 27, 2015 (AFP) - In 1974, anthropologists in Ethiopia found the astonishing fossilised remains of a human-like creature who last walked the planet some 3.2 million years ago.
Was "Lucy," as the hominid was called, the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens? Was she "The Mother of Mankind," as some headlines claimed?
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