In fact, as many as four other kinds of proto-humans roamed the continent during Lucy's time ... whether they ever interbred by looking at ancient proteins, which are coded for by DNA, she ...
Credit: AFP/Getty Images Lucy, a famous early human ancestor that lived about ... could glean only a few foggy clues from the ancient skeleton. SEE ALSO: A 66-million-year-old T.
Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million ...
Discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Lucy is special because she lived so ... This is the first evidence of an ancient species living in groups.
Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.
The spacecraft named after that ancient hominid is also exploring ... tell us much about Earth's origin, just as Lucy the fossil can tell us about human evolution.