Last month, Robin McKie at The Guardian posted an article titled, “Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution.” In it, he summarizes the Lucy discovery by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum in London and Zeray both added commentary on what questions were being asked at the time, and how our knowledge of this point in our history has shifted in the last fifty years. Zeray briefly discusses his discovery of Selam and the overall geographical spread of Australopithecus afarensis. To close, Robin adds Caitlin Schrein’s observation published in Nature Education Knowledge about Lucy’s name.