More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

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The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world's oldest humans have been discovered. The innovative tools were made from smashing stones together - and were ...

(Photo of Lucy reproduction at the Institute of Human Origins) Source: Guy P. Harrison Lifeforms like us are what can happen when the indifferent and unintelligent processes of evolution play ...

"Meat likely played a significant role in the expansion of cranial capacity - larger brain development - during human evolution ... fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy, which was discovered in ...

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The research found that Lucy could run upright but at significantly slower speeds than modern humans, supporting the theory that human evolution focused on enhancing running performance, particularly ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

The famous fossilized skeleton of Lucy was discovered in 1974. She lived over three million years ago and her fossilized remains have provided key insights into early human evolution. Recent research ...