Race and allergy

On November 24, 1974, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen “Lucy,” was discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia by paleoanthropologists Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb, nicknamed after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing at the time she was found.1 Lucy, about 3.2 million years old, was 3.5 feet tall, had powerful arms and lon g, curved toes, could climb trees as well as walk upright, and she decided to walk across the desert and take off from Ethiopia, initiating the population of the rest of the world.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research