Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

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

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.

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

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

In November, as required by state statute, the Florida Department of Education released a list of around 700 books that were "removed or discontinued" from public schools during the 2023-2024 ...

Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ... Johanson: One of them is that we have Neanderthal genes in us. Many, many years ago, before we knew that, we thought of ourselves as a very ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...