Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

The current view that an ape named Lucy was among a species that gave rise to the first early humans may have to be reconsidered. The discovery is reported in the journal Nature. The skull was ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of clever hands and stone tools ...

Turning their attention to the considerably older A. afarensis, however, they find that Lucy’s hands probably displayed a mash-up of ape-like and human traits, with certain characteristics ...