Mexico, DF.- With doodle interactive Google celebrated the 41st anniversary Discovery Lucy fossil skeleton found in a village in Hadar, Ethiopia.
Google way his name with the walk and the evolution of man, as he recalls the discovery of the almost complete bone structure the Australopithecus afarensis 1.20 centimeters high.
According to the site of the National Museum of History (MNH), the fossil was baptized with that name because as investigators celebrating the discovery listened to the song “ Lucy in the sky with diamonds” by The Beatles.
Refer apparently Lucy 200 dead for three million thousand years on the edge of a river or lake and quickly his body was covered with sediment, which allowed its almost complete conservation.
The skull of this fossil is small, with jaw-shaped “V “with a human trait and was the pelvic opening greater than it was possible to determine that it was a female, which according to analysis bone of a leg, walked upright, so it was classified as hominid, weighing between 30 and 45 kg.
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