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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

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, ...

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.

guggenmosi another unique distinction: it’s the only known hominid that shared its habitat ... a small leaf-eater that preferred to live in trees,” Madelaine Bömhe, a professor at the ...

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 ...