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Transcript: New Skull of Lucy Species Creates More Controversy
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- March 30, 1994
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ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Scientist announced today that they have unearthed
a remarkably complete skull of our earliest known ancestor, an upright,
ape-like creature that lived in Africa three million years ago.
The scientists who found the skull say its from the same species as
the famous skeleton known as Lucy. That skeleton was unearthed two
decades ago at the same site in Ethiopia as this new find, which has
sparked more scientific debate about how people evolved. NPR's Richard
Harris has the story.
RICHARD HARRIS, Reporter: Twenty years ago, Donald Johanson made
one of the most celebrated discoveries in paleontology when he unearthed
a fairly ...