Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

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

After further examination, Dart concluded the skull had belonged to a 3-year-old hominin, which he named Australopithecus africanus and dated to around 2.8 million years old. The discovery was one of ...

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. As a kid growing up in Connecticut, Johanson got a book from a neighbor ...