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

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

After the rapidly expanding australopithecines, it is a relief to find the next 1.5 million years of human evolution looking rather simpler. One hominin – Homo erectus – becomes supreme ...

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution ... human — Homo sapiens. This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the ...

Debates over human evolution weren’t confined to the pages of esoteric scientific journals at the time — Johanson and fellow paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey sparred over their differing ...

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