Walking back to their Land Rover through a gully at a site known as Hadar, Johanson noticed a forearm bone sticking ... of big brains in human evolution. Lucy’s lower-body design triggered a related ...

A forensic anthropologist was called in and did a comprehensive search that found evidence of 10-20 human skulls.

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...