Early human ancestor 'Lucy' was a bad runner, and this one tendon could explain why. ... Lucy used up between 1.7 and 2.9 times more energy than modern humans do to run that fast, ...

When the remains of an early human ancestor were found in ... Lucy’s leg muscles were much larger and took up more space than those of modern humans. “Lucy lived 3.2 million years ago on the ...

What ‘Lucy,’ One of the World’s Most Important Fossils, ... Between 3.9 million and 2.9 million years ago, these early humans lived among the woodlands and forests of eastern Africa, ...

The simulation also showed that Lucy could not run nearly as fast as modern humans, likely reaching top speeds of just 5 meters per second, even after they gave her modern human-type muscles.

That means that for over 2.5 million years, early humans and their ancestors were simply naked. As a philosopher , I’m interested in how modern culture influences representations of the past.

Our early human ancestor was capable of running, if slowly, a new study finds. By Franz Lidz More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.

Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of human ancestors in a complex and bushy family tree stretching back some 7 million years. Lucy was ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human evolution. The discovery by American paleontologist Don ...