Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

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

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

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

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

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary story that began approximately 6 million years ago and ...

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 ...