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 ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

"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 ...

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 ...

An analysis of the new specimen challenges ideas about how the first humans evolved from ape-like ancestors. The current view that an ape named Lucy was among a species that gave rise to the first ...

I thought at first maybe it was a baboon," he ... a paleoanthropologist at the University of Chicago, who said Lucy is the earliest and most complete human ancestor fossil ever uncovered.

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived ... 8 human relatives that went extinct (and 1 that didn't) The very first australopithecine to be recognized as a ...

Research later found that Lucy would have had a mixture of ape-like and human-body features ... now as they would have been when they were first made. Plummer told CBS: "I think the Oldowan ...

To analyze energy expenditure, the researchers also added human ankle muscles to the simulated Lucy. They found running would have been much harder for her than it is for us. The study’s authors ...