Recently, I went to the Natural History Museum in Cleveland. At the museum, I saw the Human Origins exhibit that included the famous Lucy skeleton and a reconstruction! Human origins is a big part of my major and something that interests me greatly. Getting to see the skeleton we talk about so often in my classes was amazing and really helped me visualize what Lucy actually was like. You can talk about things like Lucy so much in class, but until I actually stood next to the reconstruction, saw exactly how tall she was compared to me, and the variation in her pelvis compared to ours it didn’t really compute how similar yet different she was. It was hard to visualize a few broken, battered fossils on a table as one of our ancestors until I saw the reconstruction and could literally look into the eyes of one.