The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern ...

luzonensis, H. longi, and H. juluensis highlight how new perspectives are unraveling complexities in the human evolutionary tree. For decades, researchers lumped eastern Asian hominin fossils into ...

CHIEF SPECIMENS: cranium, jaw fragments, teeth found in western Chad, 2001 WHEN LIVED (est., in years ago): 7.6—6 million BRAIN SIZE (est., in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago. The story of human evolution is not one of neat, linear progression with a concrete beginning and end. Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex ...