At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Instead, he has proposed a behavioral explanation with such sweeping implications that if correct, it would amount to a kind of grand unified theory of early hominid evolution. Any trait that ...

David L. Brill Hominid evolution produced many species. Some overlapped in time. All but one—Homo sapiens, us—ended in extinction. This chart shows roughly when some of the known species in ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a hominid skull, nicknamed “Dragon Head,” near Hualongdong that doesn’t ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

Scientists have identified at least four hominid species—in addition to ... role in the development of our concepts of human evolution,” says C.K. “Bob” Brain, a curator emeritus at ...