The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The find was, at the time, the most complete ever made and revolutionised the understanding of humanity's ancestors.
Donald Johanson, who discovered Lucy, and Zeresenay Alemseged, who discovered Selam, will attend the opening in Prague.
The remains, lent by Ethiopia’s National Museum in Addis Ababa, rank among “the most precious and oldest paleoanthropological exhibits in the world”, he added.
Ethiopian Heritage Authority director Abebaw Ayalew Gella said the exhibition “promotes Ethiopia as the land of human origin”.
“Selam is a unique fossil for its age... This is a fossil of a baby who died at two years and seven months old,“ he added.
In her current shape, Lucy consists of fossilised dental remains, skull fragments, parts of the pelvis and femur.
The hominid was named after The Beatles’s song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, which the team that found her listened to after the discovery.
Long considered the oldest human ancestor ever found, Lucy was dethroned of that status in 1994 following the discovery -- also in Ethiopia -- of Ardi, a female Ardipithecus ramidus who lived 4.5 million years ago.
In a 2016 study, researchers said Lucy had strong upper arms, suggesting she regularly climbed trees and nested in branches at night.
An analysis of a fracture on one of Lucy's bones suggested that she probably died from a fall from a tall tree- AFP
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