The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

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

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

The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...

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

Discovery by international team, including Rutgers researcher, proves theory that some ancient hominins were neighborsMore ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

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

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

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

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