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

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...

Dr. Johanson and his team were looking for the evolutionary “missing link”… the creature who had evolved from a plain old ape ...

Stunning Discovery of ‘Lucy’ Fossil Revealed Humans Were Walking On Feet 3.2 Million Years Ago Experts find human evolution a ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.

And to see the original fossils of Lucy and to really encounter famous paleoanthropologists, like my good friend Donald Johanson, who came to do field work and also museum work - as (ph ...

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

SciFri's Kathleen Davis looks back at 50 years of Lucy with the people who know her best: Dr. Donald Johanson, founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and ...

SciFri's Kathleen Davis looks back at 50 years of Lucy with the people who know her best: Dr. Donald Johanson, founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and ...

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