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 ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
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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 ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.
On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...
Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 ...
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
The thinking of early theorists was that our evolution was a coordinated, linear process. Our ancestors’ brains grew steadily ...
She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...
Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...
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