Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

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

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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 ...

This genus includes several species, such as Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus sediba. Australopithecines, direct ancestors of modern humans, were relatively ...

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 ...

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 ...