erectus. To find out who the Dmanisi humans really were, the authors of the as-yet un-peer-reviewed study conducted phylogenetic analyses of the remains, thus identifying their place within the ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

New research on Australopithecus tooth enamel reveals early humans primarily consumed plants, challenging the idea of regular ...

We all trace our origins to a common hominin ancestor ... then they plateau and decline as competition intensifies and niches fill. Yet, the Homo genus, which includes modern humans, defied ...

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.