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

Lucy and her fellow australopithecines may have created and used tools more than 3 million years ago, a new study of hand ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

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

It was exactly 50 years ago on Nov. 24, 1974 that white men from America, France and Britain on a scientific expedition in ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.

Her species provided compelling evidence that upright walking evolved before large brains in human evolution.

Here’s how it works. Lucy and her fellow australopithecines may have created and used tools more than 3 million years ago, a new study of hand muscles suggests. The finding provides further ...