Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...
The stunningly complete fossil was nicknamed "Lucy." And her remarkable species ... Lucy and her kind lived equidistant in time from our ape ancestors and contemporary humans.
The chart of an ape walking on all fours ... they likely learned to walk before higher intelligence came along. Lucy's ...
The stunningly complete fossil was nicknamed "Lucy." And her remarkable species, Australopithecus afarensis, may have been our direct ancestor. Our discoveries about Lucy have transformed our ...
It was the first fossil of a partial skeleton belonging to “Lucy”, an ancient female hominin who took the story of human evolution back beyond 3 million years for the first time. This autumn ...