Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis probably were similar to humans in the size difference between males and females, according to researchers from Penn ...

Could the intelligence of Australopithecines be more developed than we previously thought? Recent discoveries about these ancestors raise questions about our evolution. At the heart of human history, ...

The australopithecines, human relatives who lived during the Pliocene and early Pleistocene epochs roughly 3.5 million to 1.8 million years ago, remain enigmatic creatures. The trouble is that ...

Over 36 years since its discovery in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression, the 3.2 million year old skeleton of Lucy is still the most famous in all of paleoanthropology.Older fossil humans have been found, as ...

Update: Not only have we found a long-lost cousin, but it now appears that the skull of newly unveiled Australopithecus sediba contains a print of its brain. The skull of the young male ...

Mrs. Ples (StS 5), discovered in Sterkfontein, South Africa, in 1947, now shown to be contemporary with the East African species of Lucy. JASON L. HEATON/BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE Were South African ...

Anthropologists define a "grade shift" when a species shares structural and/or behavioral characteristics different from their ancestors. They also agree that the appearance of Homo erectus about 2 ...

Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis probably were similar to humans in the size difference between males and females, according to researchers from Penn ...

Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis probably were similar to humans in the size difference between males and females, according to new research. Lucy and ...