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Where was the landmark fossil known as “Lucy” discovered?

Retry Correct Incorrect According to Nature, Cleveland anthropologist Donald Johanson and his colleague Alemayehu Asfaw discovered what would turn out to be a series of bones belonging to a then-newly discovered species called Australopithecus afarensis in Hadar, Ethiopia. Although the partial skeleton (code-named “Lucy”) was once thought to be humanity’s oldest ancestor, she remains an important landmark of humanity’s evolutionary lineage.

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Where was the landmark fossil known as “Lucy” discovered?

• Kenya
• South Africa
• Ethiopia
• Indonesia