The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

A new study suggests that “Lucy,” perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, wasn’t able to run that fast. […] ...

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 ...

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

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Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright on two legs—a milestone in human evolution—had speed and energy efficiency limitations when it came to running. As reported by Live Science ...

A new study has shed light on the running abilities of Australopithecus afarensis, our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor famously represented by the fossil specimen "Lucy." Despite being bipedal, Lucy’s ...

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

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

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...