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French geologist Maurice Taieb, American anthropologist Donald Johanson, British archaeologist Mary Leakey and French-born paleontologist Yves Coppens were the group of scientists that discovered Lucy, the first human fossil found in 1974 at Hadar, Ethiopia.

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