Lucy, a 3.2 million old fossil skeleton of a human ancestor of Ethiopia, is set to be displayed in Europe for the first time; ...

Run, Lucy, Run! Human Ancestors Could Jog but Not Very Far or Fast Three-dimensional models of Australopithecus afarensis hint at the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners ...

The mystified protagonist of the movie Lucy, while she transcends the limits of human existence, encloses the central ...

A team of natural scientists, musculoskeletal specialists, and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.K., working with a colleague from the Netherlands, has found via ...

Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, smaller gut size, and increased stature.