“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

Three million years after she walked the Earth, the face of Lucy - one of humanity's most important ancestors - has been brought to life like never before. Thanks to a detailed di ...

Lucy helped prove the theory that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago - Cicero Moraes/Pen News ...

They detail their own reconstruction of the Lucy fossil, bringing into relief their methods, the relationship between art and science, and decisions made to supplement gaps in scientific knowledge.

The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic ... This was a team effort, with ...

The archeological community has widely accepted the hypothesis that the early hominin species Australopithecus africanus (e.g. Mrs. Ples) descended from A. afarensis (e.g. Lucy). However, “[t]he ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...