“The Beatles' song 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' was playing on a tape recorder in camp the night of the discovery, and that's how she got her name.”

About Donald Johanson

Scientist • American

Donald Johanson is a renowned American paleoanthropologist celebrated for his groundbreaking discovery of the fossil 'Lucy'. In 1974, in Hadar, Ethiopia, he unearthed the 3.2-million-year-old remains of an...