Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

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

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

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

Lucy on Why She Will Be Betting The Bills ... Stephen Miller And More Scientists discovered 50,000-year-old viruses in Neanderthal DNA that could help explain their mysterious extinction The ...

Nestled in Germany's picturesque Neander Valley where Neanderthals were first discovered, a museum is tapping into our growing fascination with our long-lost relatives. Inside a museum in western ...

A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them The ...

Lucy McBath was born in Joliet, Illinois. McBath earned a B.A. from Virginia State University in 1982. [2] Her career experience includes working as a flight attendant, a professional advocate, and an ...

Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This suggests the two species may have had, at ...