Because her skeleton was so complete, Lucy gave us an unprecedented picture of her kind. In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools ...

"It really showed us without a doubt that the skeleton was ... led to the classification of entirely new species of early human. Lucy's kind are now called Australopithecus afarensis, in honor ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to 3.9 million years ago. The ...

His legs were relatively long in proportion to his body compared to earlier hominids like Lucy. With his tall ... more like a modern human baby. This in turn suggests that his species must ...

Brill Researchers long assumed early human ancestors were chimpanzee ... In 1994, 20 years after Lucy’s skeleton was discovered, a team in Kenya led by Meave Leakey (the wife of Richard Leakey ...

Researchers have discovered a 7,200-year-old skeleton of a young woman in a cave in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that provides new insight into the migration patterns of early humans. DNA from the ...