Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery. Fifty ...

Excerpted from The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution, by Ian Tattersall. Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2015. Copyright ...

Volume 1. Principles, methods, and approaches. Historical overview of paleoanthropological research / Winfried Henke ; Charles Darwin, paleoanthropology, and the modern synthesis / Franz M. Wuketits ; ...

Every year, from late May to early July, a global team of students, paleoanthropologists, geologists and faunal experts, traveling from South Africa, Australia, the United States and Europe, make the ...

The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (abbreviated to IVPP) of China is a prominent research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and ...

It's common to think of evolution as a series of battles between species. But in nature, creatures aren't making strategic decisions to win an evolutionary war Before this the oldest Homo sapiens ...

Fifty years ago today, a groundbreaking discovery was unearthed in Ethiopia, the fossilized bones of a human ancestor, and you probably already know her name... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LUCY IN THE SKY ...

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