Instead, he has proposed a behavioral explanation with such sweeping implications that if correct, it would amount to a kind of grand unified theory of early hominid evolution. Any trait that ...

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 ...

The most primitive hominid yet found, this species has more chimpanzee-like features than any other human ancestor. Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A.

Using advanced scanning, modeling, and forensic techniques, Chinese scientists have reconstructed the faces of Yunxian Man ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid Hunting. She has M.As in biological anthropology and science writing. The "discovery" turned out to be the biggest hoax in the ...

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Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 50, 20-58 (2007). Vrba, E. S. "Late Pliocene climatic events and hominid evolution," in Evolutionary History of the "Robust" Australopithecines, ed. F.

Although there is only one hominid species in existence today, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of human evolution, a wide range of members of the species have existed. One activity scientists ...

Specific emphasis is on mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance ... as in bioarchaeology, or ancient, as in hominid and primate fossils of the past 60 million years. For living groups, ...