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 ...

When Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, he pondered the evolution of organisms ranging ... shared the planet with one or more other hominid species. Indeed, far from being a linear ...

Gorillas are humans’ closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable importance for the study of human origins and evolution. Here we present the assembly and analysis of a ...

Thumbs that enabled a forceful grip and improved the ability to manipulate objects gave ancient Homo or a closely related hominid line an evolutionary advantage over hominid contemporaries ...

A tiny pre-human who lived more than 900,000 years ago in what is now Kenya may have been a “short experiment” in evolution, scientists reported in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.

The skulls come from a group of early hominid fossils found in the nearly-inaccessible cave shaft of Sima de los Huesos ("Pit of Bones") in Atapuerca, Spain. Though a genetic analysis of one of the ...

It is about the controversial placement of Kenyanthropus in hominid evolution; [Note: I am blogging about this now because the clip was added earlier this month to YouTube, thus I assumed that it ...

In contrast, many anthropologists think of hominid evolution as a bush composed of numerous lineages that, for the most part, died out. Each of Ardi’s challenges draws plenty of fire.