The history of human evolution isn’t a straight line from fish to monkey to human. You know that. The family tree of the genus Homo is full of diverging paths, with branches and dead ends.

For the first time ever, scientists have managed to determine the biological sex of an ancient human ancestor that lived in ...

In a rare congruence of new evidence, two fossil jaws cast a fused beam of light on one of the darkest mysteries in human evolution: the origin of our genus Homo. The two lower jaws—one a ...

“We have been ignoring the way competition between species has shaped our own evolutionary tree,” said lead author ... and ...

Australopithecus sediba was probably a climber "of some sort," Berger says, but he notes that "climbing trees is not ... jaw is indeed Homo and that the trail of our own genus significantly ...

Meet Homo naledi, the newest member of the human family tree. University of the Witwatersrand Every family has its oddball aunt or uncle, and our ancient human relations are no exception.

That’s kind of the state of affairs in human evolution, especially now ... it’s with the transition to the Homo genus of the family tree that tool use – and tool-making – really takes ...

"We have been ignoring the way competition between species has shaped our own evolutionary tree," said lead author ... studied the evolution of our own genus, Homo, things started to get much ...

The newly proposed theory of modern human origins supports the view (not explicitly referenced in the Nature article) that the genus Homo, at least in the later period of its evolution ...

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins—and produced a "bizarre" evolutionary pattern ... pattern in our own genus Homo may well have been technology.

Big brains powered the rise of the Homo genus ... evolution. During the televised debate between Johanson and Richard Leakey, Johanson presented a drawing of his proposed hominid family tree.