About 3.2 million years ago, our ancestor "Lucy" roamed what is now Ethiopia ... afarensis lived throughout East Africa, and paleoanthropologists have found numerous fossils of this species ...

From that moment, Johanson dreamed of going to Africa to search for this ... evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is ...

The true face of the tiny primate “Lucy”, who proved that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago, ...

The first early hominid from Africa, the Taung child ... One of the first teams to search for lucy’s ancestor was the Middle Awash project, which formed in 1981 when White and Asfaw joined ...

In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal ...

afarensis (e.g. Lucy). However, “[t]he contemporaneity of the two ... “It’s a big deal, this does confirm that these primitive ancestors were all over Africa.

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor ... girl known to the outside world as Lucy and to Ethiopians as Dinqnish - the ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of ... other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also ...