Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Ardipithecus ramidus is a female who lived 4.4 million years ago. Her skeleton has been described as one of the most important discoveries of the past century. Tim White 2009, From Science Oct. 2 ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as ... give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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

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 ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

The complex unfolding of human evolution over ... in the larger volume of primate evolutionary history. Humans, and our hominin ancestors, belong to a family of great apes that includes ...