Fifty years after its discovery on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, the fossil known as Lucy continues to shape our understanding of human origins. Lucy remains an icon ...

Fossil limb-bone comparisons indicate that Australopithecus combined climbing with upright walking, whereas early Homo was ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of Australopithecus afarensis, the early human ancestor famously represented by ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution, there’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans, has once again helped scientists learn more about our early evolution -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What separates us from the apes? Our big brains? Speech? A keen fashion sense? A team of evolutionary biologists compared the ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...