2010 Science News of the Year: Humans

Credit: Y. Haile-Selassie et al/PNAS 2010

Extreme makeover for Lucy’s kind
Recent fossil discoveries suggest that the early hominid species represented by the famous bones of Lucy, who lived 3.2 million years ago in Ethiopia, may have been more like modern humans than previously thought. The skeleton of a 3.6-million-year-old