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 ...

in years ago): 7.6—6 million BRAIN SIZE (est., in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp's) SPECIAL FEATURES: oldest known hominin; set apart from other fossil apes by smaller ...

M., Percussion marks on bone surfaces as a new diagnostic of hominid behavior. Nature 333, 763-765 (1988). Blumenschine, R. J. et al. Vertebrate taphonomic perspectives on Oldowan hominin land-use ...

The oldest hominid facial bones ever discovered in Western Europe have ... So I think the key finding is that we are documenting for the first time a hominin population that we did not know we had in ...

a site renowned for its wealth of hominid fossils. These caves are part of the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

The discovery reveals aspects of hominin migration and evolution farther ... but recognizes similarities with the more well-known hominid group, though the team cannot conclusively assign it ...

It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each other in Laetoli, a hominid archeological site in Tanzania. As Hill dived out of ...

What they say about the creatures, supplemented by other sorts of evidence, is fully consistent with a surviving hominin species, or one that only went extinct within the last 100 years.

The Museum's palaeoanthropology collection includes the UK's largest assemblage of fossil hominin remains and a diverse collection of hominin tools. With over 3,000 specimens, the Museum's collection ...