The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

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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.

A forensic anthropology team from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania is examining a set of human remains recovered ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

Tracy L. Kivell is director of the department of human origins at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.

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

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...

It is November 24, 1974, when a group of researchers discovers in an archaeological site in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia the ...

Australopithecines’ hands reveal possible tool use 3 million years ago Study links early hominins’ hand anatomy to skilled object manipulation Key muscle traits hint at pre-Homo tool-making capability ...

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 ...