UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

"Lucy," our 3.2 million-year-old hominin relative, couldn't run very fast, according to a new study. But modeling her running ability has provided new insights into the evolution of human anatomy ...

The researchers then used a simulator to make their Lucy model ‘run’ and compared its performance with that of a digital model of a modern human. The simulations showed that Lucy could run on ...

Similar to the Cosmic Perspective, The Primate Perspective offers us a more grounded and rational understanding of who we are ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a special package written for the 50th anniversary of the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old A. afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." About 3.2 ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Lucy, an early human ancestor, could run upright but much slower than modern humans. New simulations show that muscle and ...

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 ...

According to research led by Karl T. Bates and his team at the University of Liverpool, Lucy could not have rivaled an average human in a race, as reported by Infobae. Lucy, an early human ...

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...