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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...