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 ...

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Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

This genus includes several species, such as Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus sediba. Australopithecines, direct ancestors of modern humans, were relatively ...