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Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

The researchers compared Lucy’s performances with those of a digital model of a modern human whose measurements echoed those of the 5-foot-9, 154-pound Dr. Bates, who is 38.

But speed wasn’t Lucy’s strength: she could reach a maximum of only around 5 metres per second, even after the researchers remodelled her with human muscles.

(Here’s one theory on how Lucy died.) Lucy toured the U.S. in 2007 and made her first public appearance ever at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas.

It has now been 50 years since Lucy’s skeleton was found on that Ethiopian slope, and over the decades she has become an iconic figure in the story of human evolution.

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.