Lucy, Human Evolution and Fossil
Dr. Johanson and his team were looking for the evolutionary “missing link”… the creature who had evolved from a plain old ape ...
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What 'Lucy,' One of the World's Most Important Fossils, Has Taught Scientists in the 50 Years Since Her DiscoveryAbout 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
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From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relativesLucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...
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A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.
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Ancient human ancestor Lucy was not alone — she lived alongside at least 4 other proto-human species, emerging research suggestsLucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...
Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 ...
On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...
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