The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

Two Populations, One Unexpected Journey. For years, scientists believed human evolution followed a straightforward path. A single group of ancestors gradually evolved into Homo sapiens.But new ...

Human Evolution Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens. ... A tree of life diagram for all flowering plant genera based on DNA analysis. (Image credit: ...

On the other hand, if you were a tree-thinking bacterium, your view of life's tapestry would be just like that of the tree-thinking human—in this instance, you would appreciate that all living ...

Since Darwin's time, researchers have based their classification system for animals on anatomy. A new study says that approach may be all wrong.

And, while other branches of the human evolutionary tree are vigorously debated in the literature, the usual signposts of phylogenetic uncertainty (e.g., dashed lines, alternate branches, question ...

Evolutionary diagrams usually connect humans and monkeys with common primate ancestors, but now, scientists say there’s a missing link that deserves a spot on that family tree – our bacteria ...

An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

This newfound 3.8-million-year-old skull is an ‘iconic’ specimen in human evolution August 28, 2019 More than 5 years ago The Australopithecus anamensis cranium fossil.

The research, carried out by scientists from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute, combines human genomes from a variety of sources to better understand human history and evolution.

There’s room for skepticism about whether Ardi was a biped, said Jamie Shreeve in National Geographic, but not about her importance to the field of human evolution.Assuming Ardi did walk on two ...

The discovery of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, and continues to capture human imagination.