Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion ... it would amount to a kind of grand unified theory of early hominid evolution. Any trait that proves to be so advantageous ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we ...

And this list is getting longer. 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.

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 ...

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes ... years before members of the human evolutionary family hit the ground ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid ... because the mammals plucked fruits from the ends of tree branches A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ...