Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ... Johanson: One of them is that we have Neanderthal genes in us. Many, many years ago, before we knew that, we thought of ourselves as a very ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human evolution. The discovery by American paleontologist Don Johanson and graduate student Tom ...

They found DNA, but it wasn’t human, and it wasn’t Neanderthal. It was some other species that we know very little about. They call them Denisovans. How have views of Lucy changed over the ...