About 3.2 million years ago, our ancestor ... first indication that other hominins lived around Lucy's time, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, director of Arizona State University's Institute of Human ...

Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

In the first of the two images ... who discovered the fossilized skeleton — called “Lucy” — of a human ancestor. NASA’s Lucy mission is named for the fossil. Lucy’s principal ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor ... revealed that Lucy wasn’t as good at running as modern humans.

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9-3.9 million years ago. The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ...