"Lucy," our 3.2 million-year-old hominin relative ... efficiently on two feet arose around 2 million years ago with our Homo erectus ancestors. But our earlier relatives, the australopithecines ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans ... and run efficiently on two legs began two million years ago with Homo erectus. We also know that four million years ago, Australopithecus ...

(Photo of Lucy reproduction at the Institute of Human ... A direct line of connective tissue runs through us all the way back to Homo erectus, Australopithecines, sea sponges, single-celled ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil ... but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in Indonesia ...

His legs were relatively long in proportion to his body compared to earlier hominids like Lucy. With his tall ... With the appearance Homo erectus/ergaster in the fossil record we also see ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...