The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...

The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...

Lucy is currently classified in the genus Australopithecus, the small-brained half of the human family tree. Paleontologists do not consider her one of the big-brained, tool-making species in the ...