Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...

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.

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

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 ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family."The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline ...

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

Lucy N. Holman Elementary School is a public school located in Jackson, NJ, which is in a large suburb setting. The student population of Lucy N. Holman Elementary School is 498 and the school ...

Annie Lucy Williams Elementary School is a public school located in Parrish, FL, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Annie Lucy Williams Elementary School is 798 and the ...

In December 1968, Raymonde Bonnefille explored the Mille region of Ethiopia, where the Lucy skeleton was discovered in 1974. R. BONNEFILLE Lucy was discovered half a century ago, on November 24 ...

Very few people had been to this region of Ethiopia, and people began launching their own expeditions and finding even more exciting things in some ways. But I think that Lucy was the spark.