STONE AGE : The Human Era
The first species of the genus Homo, evolved in South and East Africa in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene (2 - 2.5 million years before present) when it diverged fr...
Hominid Species Timeline
The main Hominid species (apes, humans) and their approximate relationships in time.
Australopithicus afarensis is a recently discovered Hominid species which lived in...
The Human Origins
Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shar...
Lucy, Australopithecus, lived 3.2 MYA
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on November 30, 1974 by the International Afar Research Expedition (I...