The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young ... is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind.

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

Bones from the most complete of four individuals represented by the new finds cover about 15 percent of that creature’s skeleton ... preceded the great ape/human split and likely started ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived 3.2 million years ago, evolutionarily halfway between our ape ancestors ... as its skeleton helped to prove that ...

The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences among these species.