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

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

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

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

Take a closer look at your hands—they carry millions of years of evolutionary history, connecting you to our closest primate ...

We break down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...