Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

But this oversimplified view of human evolution is not quite right, and was upended in 1974 after the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton called Lucy. New ideas about evolution thanks to ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor ... the erectus skeleton is very similar to that of modern humans, although ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

Charles Darwin's theory states that all organisms alive today evolved from more simple life forms. Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa.