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

Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely ...

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

The ancestor named 'Lucy' was shorter than modern-day humans - about 3.3 feet in height - and had an ape-like face. Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human ...

When the parts were assembled, her arms resembled chimpanzee arms and her skull suggested a chimpanzee’s skull. But her ...

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

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

The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair ... and was upended in 1974 after the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton called Lucy. New ideas about evolution thanks to a knee ...

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