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

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

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 ...

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. As a kid growing up in Connecticut, Johanson got a book from a neighbor ...

Research led by the Universidad de Burgos has uncovered evidence suggesting Neanderthals engaged in collecting activities ...

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It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But 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 ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

The Taung child skull is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus, which was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, present-day North ...