The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

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

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, ...

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.

It was exactly 50 years ago on Nov. 24, 1974 that white men from America, France and Britain on a scientific expedition in ...

Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia and when she was found 50 years ago, she was the oldest known human specimen in existence. The remains of the proto-human are 3.18-million-year-old and they ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

Lucy Dodd (born 1981, New York) is an American painter and installation artist. Dodd synthesizes pigments from various organic and inorganic matter. Her work frequently invokes art historical and ...

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 ...

CNN: What was Lucy’s significance at the time that she was discovered? Johanson: She was the oldest, most complete hominin ..