Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...
Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Preserved in volcanic ash and measuring 27 meters (88 feet) long, the 3.6-million-year-old footprint trail was likely left behind by one of the earliest hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis—the ...
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights ...
Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. As a kid growing up in Connecticut, Johanson got a book from a neighbor ...