A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

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

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began ...

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species ... We often imagine the human evolutionary tree as a grander version of a personal family tree ...

Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex and bushy branches stretch over ... We know that interbreeding with these ancient humans allowed Homo sapiens to acquire genes that improved their ...

Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens ... in an enormous family tree. To help you explore this tree ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...