At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Africa, these bones are from a species of hominid but they don’t seem to fit in the current timeline. This species has ...

As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another. Like all creatures, no two ...

Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

where some of paleoanthropology's most iconic fossils have been found The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family ...

The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, a site renowned for its wealth of hominid ...

superseding all other hominid species. The implication of this argument is that all modern people are ultimately of African descent. The other theory, known as the 'Multi-regional' Model ...

MAROPENG, South Africa (AFP) - Two skeletons of a new hominid species dating back two million years and found in South Africa have shed light on a previously unknown stage in human evolution, ...