"Lucy," our 3.2 million-year-old hominin relative ... efficiently on two feet arose around 2 million years ago with our Homo erectus ancestors. But our earlier relatives, the australopithecines ...

Similar to the Cosmic Perspective, The Primate Perspective offers us a more grounded and rational understanding of who we are ...

A new study suggests that "Lucy," perhaps the world's most famous ... About 2 million years ago, our Homo erectus ancestors first got the ability to walk and run on two legs efficiently.

Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright ... running evolved later in the human lineage, particularly with Homo erectus, who had body proportions closer to modern humans and anatomical ...

Lastly, the world wished a happy 50th anniversary to the discovery of Lucy, one of the most famous ... these tracks were most likely left by Homo erectus, the earliest hominin with a gait ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...