In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...

By morning, the skeleton that would forever alter our understanding of human evolution had a name: Lucy. Walk Tall. Hadar, located in the Afar region’s Awash River valley, ...

The answer lies as much in Lucy’s value as a symbol of humanity’s deep evolutionary history in Africa as in her intrinsic worth as a source of evidence about human evolution. Let’s page back ...

It has now been 50 years since Lucy’s skeleton was found on that Ethiopian slope, and over the decades she has become an iconic figure in the story of human evolution. Lucy on a slope with gravel ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil "Lucy" at Addis Ababa's National Museum, Ethiopia, on May 7, 2013. The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974.

Human Evolution Who were the Denisovans, archaic humans who lived in Asia and went extinct around 30,000 years ago? Human Evolution 43,000-year-old human fingerprint is world's oldest — and made ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

For the first time, scientists have pieced together the complex muscle structure of 3.18-million-year-old hominin icon, Lucy. It confirms popular thought that our ancient relative was able to walk ...