EvolutionNovember 11, 2024
The Lucy Fossil’s Extraordinary Journey to Becoming an Icon of Human Evolution
The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances
Stories by Bernard Wood
Bernard Wood is a medically trained paleoanthropologist at George Washington University. His interest in human evolution research began in 1968, when, as a medical student, he joined paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey’s expedition to northern Kenya.
EvolutionOctober 1, 2016
The Latest Fossil Finds Make the Puzzle of Human Evolution Harder Than Ever to Solve
The latest molecular analyses and fossil finds suggest that the story of human evolution is far more complex—and more interesting—than anyone imagined
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2014
The Latest Fossil Finds Make the Puzzle of Human Evolution Harder Than Ever to Solve
The latest molecular analyses and fossil finds suggest that the story of human evolution is far more complex—and more interesting—than anyone imagined