superseding all other hominid species. The implication of this argument is that all modern people are ultimately of African descent. The other theory, known as the 'Multi-regional' Model ...

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 ...

While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another. Like all creatures, no two ...

Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.

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.

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 ...