He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared ...

Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...