Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar, ...

The Primate Perspective helps us recognize that we are deeply connected to the natural history of this planet as well as countless forms of life around us, on us, and inside of us right now. Source: ...

WASHINGTON — The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, ...

The partial skeleton of this small-bodied, relatively small-brained female captured the public’s imagination. Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took our major fossil evidence for bipedal walking, human-like ...

The ability to stand upright and stride on two feet was a critical milestone in setting the human species apart from our ape ancestors. Paleoanthropologists say it’s what eventually allowed humans to ...

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