This is why Lucy has been the face of human evolution for the last 50 years. Paleontologists unearthed the iconic fossil in 1974. Today, her legacy remains just as much cultural as it is scientific.

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, ...

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...

The answer lies as much in Lucy’s value as a symbol of humanity’s deep evolutionary history in Africa as in her intrinsic worth as a source of evidence about human evolution. Let’s page back ...

By morning, the skeleton that would forever alter our understanding of human evolution had a name: Lucy. Walk Tall. Hadar, located in the Afar region’s Awash River valley, ...

Despite quibbles over classification, there’s no question that Lucy was and is important to our understanding of human evolution. In 2012, scientist Derek Rossi nominated the spot where she was ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil "Lucy" at Addis Ababa's National Museum, Ethiopia, on May 7, 2013. The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974.

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Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

For the first time, scientists have pieced together the complex muscle structure of 3.18-million-year-old hominin icon, Lucy. It confirms popular thought that our ancient relative was able to walk ...

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...