afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs. When her crushed remains were ...
afarensis was bipedal and moved more like a human than an ape, giving scientists more clues about human evolution ... announced in 2024 that another drawing from the site could be dated to ...
Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...
The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was ...
provide evidence of human evolution which has modified our conception of the history of humankind. The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy ...
Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.