The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and will fly close to asteroid Donaldjohanson in April.

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil ... Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from ... the Australopithecus afarensis known as Lucy, who lived around 3.2 million years ago. By ...

some anthropologists say Home to Lucy, Ardi, the oldest stone tools, the first fossils of modern humans and many other discoveries, Ethiopia deserves the title of Cradle of Humankind ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

On the right, detail of the cut mark. “Homo antecessor shares with Homo sapiens a more modern-looking face and a prominent nasal bone structure, whereas Pink’s facial features are more ...

Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925.

Donaldjohanson has a direct link to the Lucy spacecraft's name. Donald Johanson is a paleoanthropologist who discovered parts of a fossilized skeleton of an ancestor of homo sapiens', an ...