Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern ...

juluensis highlight how new perspectives are unraveling complexities in the human evolutionary tree. For decades, researchers lumped eastern Asian hominin fossils into broad categories such as ...

A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

and their fates within the human evolutionary tree took starkly different routes. Homo erectus had a humanlike anatomy from the neck down. The species used stone tools and might have cooked with fire.

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago. The story of human evolution is not one of neat, linear progression with a concrete beginning and end. Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex ...

Numbers on red branches from the first eutherian ancestor to Homo sapiens are the numbers of breakpoints in reconstructed ancestral chromosome fragments. Breakpoints are locations where a ...

Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens ... of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...