Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and Jonathan North (KBRWyle) Visualizations by: Kel Elkins (USRA) Mus ...

“Clay: A Human History,” by Jennifer Lucy Allan, is a collection of fascinating fragments, from ancient myths to music made in porcelain bowls.

3.18-million-year-old grandmother: Lucy’s bones leave Ethiopia for a historic first-ever European display; Prague museum lands the ultimate fossil exhibit.

Just over 50 years ago, paleontologist Donald Johnson unearthed the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. Now, another group of scientists have ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

Lucy's Legacy: 50 Years On, The Fossil That Changed Our Understanding Of Human Evolution Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we ...

The whole story of human evolution, from ancient apes via Lucy to us, in one long read by John Gowlett, The Conversation Editors' notes Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ...

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

Donald Johanson excavating Lucy’s pelvis. Credit: ASU Institute of Human Origins On November 24, 1974—50 years ago this November—a pair of paleoanthropologists made the discovery of a lifetime: a set ...

This is why Lucy has been the face of human evolution for the last 50 years Paleontologists unearthed the iconic fossil in 1974. Today, her legacy remains just as much cultural as it is scientific.