Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus afarensis, was long believed to be an ancestor species that humans ...

Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...