"Key features in the human body plan evolved specifically for improved running performance." The new study is the first time researchers have directly estimated running ability in Lucy's species ...

In fact, as many as four other kinds of proto-humans roamed the continent ... bahrelghazali was the first indication that other hominins lived around Lucy's time, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, director ...

Our team’s research modelled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could ...

Lucy's fatal fall is likely the first scientific hypothesis pointing ... director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, in an interview. Kimbel was a junior author on ...

The first sign that there might be a different ... another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ...

Lucy and other members of her species could walk well because their hip and knee joints were more like humans' than like chimps'. The very first fossils of this species -- found by ...

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 ...

In August of 2027, Lucy will have its first encounter with one of ... just as Lucy the fossil can tell us about human evolution. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions ...