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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Human evolution is the study of how our species ... The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, raising questions ...

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 ...

Researchers argue that the variation among East Asian hominins demands a reevaluation of evolutionary models, challenging traditional narratives of human history. A 2023 fossil in Hualongdong, ...