Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

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Research Reveals Iconic Ancient Fossil ‘Lucy’ Last Hours on Earth, Suggest She Was in Danger and Not Alone Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his team on the International Afar Research ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much ...

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Stunning Discovery of ‘Lucy’ Fossil Revealed Humans Were Walking On Feet 3.2 Million Years Ago Experts find human evolution a ...

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

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.