Homo sapiens are the last surviving members of the genus Homo, every other species within our genus having gone extinct no later than 40,000 years ago. Generations of paleoanthropologists have ...

Members of the genus Australopithecus, made famous by the individual known as Lucy, are thought to be the immediate ancestors ...

leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and ...