What the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone from a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as ‘the mother of us all’. During a celebration after her discovery, she was named ‘Lucy’ after the Beatles song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. Although … Read more