Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
After spending more than three years analyzing the find, an international team that included Haile-Selassie, PhD, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland ... to the same time period and ...
Since her public debut in 1978, Lucy has been on a first-name basis with the world. Not bad for someone from rural Ethiopia who had been an unknown for 3.2 million years or so. Even for those of ...
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.
It is November 24, 1974, when a group of researchers discovers in an archaeological site in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia the ...
Lucy graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and minor in Food Systems & Nutrition. While there she channeled her love of food and culture into her thesis on ...