The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the Czech premier said on ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the Czech premier said Tuesday.

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

"In this context, this new study identifies suspensory adaptations in the 4.4 million-year-old hand remains of Ardipithecus ramidus, suggesting that human hand morphology may have emerged from an ...

Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the earliest hominin species to exhibit clear evidence of bipedalism — walking on two legs. One of the most obvious adaptations that separates humans from our close ...

Science X Science News Wire : Canine sexual dimorphism in Ardipithecus ramidus is estimated -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Science X staff.

Walking has taken a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa roughly 4.4 million years ago.

A skull of one of our distant ancestors, Ardipithecus ramidus. Male chest-beating may not be the only option for how species socialize. As an astrobiologist I often get the question: What would ...

More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a ...

The skull of Ardipithecus ramidus – a hominin that swung from branches? Our distant ancestors may have swung from branches and knuckle-walked like a chimpanzee – challenging recent thinking ...