Lucy’s legacy: ancient hominin arrives in Prague the first in Europe

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Lucy’s legacy: ancient hominin arrives in Prague the first in Europe  Prague’s newest visitor is 3.2 million years old. Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has arrived in the Czech capital alongside Selam, a young child of the same species, for a groundbreaking exhibition on human evolution.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/08/27/lucys-legacy-ancient-hominin-arrives-in-prague-the-first-in-europe  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00She's not your average tourist.

00:04Meet Lucy, a 3.2 million year old hominem from Ethiopia.

00:09Discovered in 1974, her bones provided crucial evidence that our early ancestors worked upright.

00:18Both skeletons are among the rarest exhibits of the world heritage.

00:23They are over 3 million years old and appear in a European country for the first time.

00:30Now in Prague, Lucy and the child fossil Salem are both Australopithecus affarensis.

00:42They are part of a new exhibition tracing 7 million years of human evolution.

00:50Some say their story offers a stark warning to humanity today.

00:55Lucy's species, that tongue twister Australopithecus affarensis, lived for almost a million years.

01:06We have been around for a couple hundred thousand years.

01:10If we were going to equal the time that she walked the planet Earth, we would have to live 9000 more centuries.

01:18And yet here, at the beginning of the third millennium, we are questioning the validity and the length, the survival of our own environment.

01:30Standing just over a meter tall, Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in the world.

01:39Her bones provided the first profound evidence that our early ancestors not only walked upright,

01:45but studies of her strong arms suggest she also climbed trees, likely nesting in them at night.

01:52Long considered our oldest known relative, Lucy was eventually dethroned by older finds like Adi and Tumai.

02:12Yet, her story remains a cornerstone of human evolution.

02:16It is so true for a moment.

02:33Two encounters with two guys believe that young woman rockers belong to her district in Tim dryland,

02:39typically the snake church is their five-month use of human hopper.

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