In 1974, I discovered the skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton popularly known as Lucy. How? Well, picture yourself... in a desert in Ethiopia… it’s ferociously hot. But you’re willing to put up with the heat because you’ve carefully researched the area and you’ve spent years training your eyes to detect fossilized bones and teeth among the rocks. You’ve dreamed of finding a specimen of an ancient ancestor since you were 13 years old. Also, you bet Richard Leakey a bottle of wine that you would.

 

Read the whole story in my book,

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.