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 ...

Scientists have been studying Lucy for 50 years. Source: Getty 50 years ago, a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus africanus, which became known worldwide as Lucy, was found in Ethiopia. To mark the ...