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Lucy it was, and Johanson and his colleagues spent the next two weeks searching and excavating and screening more of her. They ended up with about 40% of a skeleton, 47 bones that would define ...

The oldest Australopithecus is A. anamensis, found in northern Kenya and dating to more than 4 million years ago, closely followed by A. afarensis in Ethiopia— Lucy’s species —and A ...

Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking, human-like creatures (collectively known as hominins) beyond 3 million years for the first time.

Maybe a species continues to evolve by gaining new traits, say Homo erectus evolves into Homo sapiens. Or maybe they interbreed with other species — like humans did with neanderthals. Or they could ...

In southern Africa, meanwhile, Homo naledi was a primitive-seeming species that dates back just 300,000 years, and seems likely to have been a small-brained descendant of an early Homo erectus.

Overall, Lucy marks an important transitional stage between more primitive ancestors and later hominins that eventually gave rise to the genus Homo, to which our own species belongs.

After 50 Years, Scientists Still Love Lucy Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.