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Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

The hominid was discovered on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeast Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

Lucy was often described as "the grandmother of humanity", but more recent discoveries suggest she may have been more like an ...

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Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.