One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

If australopithecine-like species were able to reach South-East Asia, it would change the way our ideas about who in our human family tree left Africa first. Homo erectus has long thought to have ...

Others hypothesize that Homo floresiensis represents a distinct evolutionary lineage, a bizarre offshoot of the human family ...

The Red Deer Cave People might have been some of the most unusual and mysterious humans to walk the Earth in the past 20,000 ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens ... summarized in an enormous family tree. To help you explore ...

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the ... six-million-year-old Orrorin tugenensis. But it's not until Homo erectus came on the ...

Traditionally, only human ancestors were placed in the family Hominidae (and thereby referred ... And, while other branches of the human evolutionary tree are vigorously debated in the literature ...

The tiny Homo floresiensis highlights another way in which our ancient ... As new fossils continue to be uncovered and added to the human family tree, new dating techniques and climate data are ...

It is a hole in the ground about 25 miles northwest of Johannesburg, in a ridged brown valley where herds of giraffes occasionally parade between stands of trees ... the Leakey family in Tanzania ...

where some of paleoanthropology's most iconic fossils have been found The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family ...

"Understanding the timing of the initial colonization of Sicily provides key data for the pattern and mode of the early ...