Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya ... such as Donald Johanson, who felt his fossil Lucy was of the same family as some of the Leakey's finds. The Leakey family has been remarkable in the ...

Lucy is also a female human-like fossilised ... for human evolution were found by the archaeologists Mary and Louis Leakey. Mary was British and her husband, Louis, was Kenyan.