hand and heart

The recent post office troubles have impacted our regular fundraising efforts. Please consider supporting the Register and Catholic journalism by using one of the methods below:

  • Donate online
  • Donate by e-transfer to accounting@catholicregister.org
  • Donate by telephone: 416-934-3410 ext. 406 or toll-free 1-855-441-4077 ext. 406
Subscribe to this RSS feed
April 12, 2019

Humanity's ancestors: Lucy, Toumai and the evolving journey of prehumans

A group of Spanish tourists view a replica and reconstruction of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as Lucy at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aug. 7, 2007.

VATICAN CITY - As a follow-up to a 2013 symposium on the origin and evolution of humans, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences held a workshop discussing the latest discoveries about humanity's earliest ancestors -- where they lived and what they may have looked like millions of years ago.

Published in International