This is why Lucy has been the face of human evolution for the last 50 years. Paleontologists unearthed the iconic fossil in 1974. Today, her legacy remains just as much cultural as it is scientific.

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, ...

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil "Lucy" at Addis Ababa's National Museum, Ethiopia, on May 7, 2013. The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974.

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

The answer lies as much in Lucy’s value as a symbol of humanity’s deep evolutionary history in Africa as in her intrinsic worth as a source of evidence about human evolution. Let’s page back ...

By morning, the skeleton that would forever alter our understanding of human evolution had a name: Lucy. Walk Tall. Hadar, located in the Afar region’s Awash River valley, ...

It has now been 50 years since Lucy’s skeleton was found on that Ethiopian slope, and over the decades she has become an iconic figure in the story of human evolution. Lucy on a slope with gravel ...

Discovered 50 years ago, the skeleton ushered in a new way of thinking about human evolution The ancient hominid known as Lucy (reconstruction shown) is familiar to fans all around the world.

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...