A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens ... Traditional models ...

The genetic information contained in the genomes of six species of hominids has ... during the evolutionary process of hominids, leading to interspecies evolution as they recombine." ...

He demonstrated that the earliest hominids “had brains that ... a theoretical model for understanding human evolution because I regarded each species as a terminal end product of their own ...

Now, scientists have been treated to front row seats of evolution unfolding in real time, as two similar lizard species encounter each other for the first time and quickly adapt to fill different ...

Denisovans also bred with humans around 50,000 years ago, meaning the DNA of the early hominids survives today. The Denisovans are an extinct species of human that appear to have lived in ...

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, Ethiopia, on the morning of November 24, 1974. The two had initially set out ...

The discovery will provide more insight into human evolution and how species cooperated and competed with one ... term that describes a subdivision of the larger category known as hominids. Hominins ...

Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of early hominids who lived in what ... Neanderthal and this new proposed species,” said Christopher Bae, a professor of anthropology ...

Though the South African skull hinted that early hominids had adopted ... movement to understand different species concepts and their implications for primate evolution. During the televised ...

In reality, there’s something called evolution… and that has never stopped in our species. The sapiens who lived 100,000 ... we want to [link ourselves] to the Neanderthals, as they were hominids with ...

The species is key to understanding the mosaic nature of hominid (great ape and human) evolution because it is known from a ... that an upright body plan preceded adaptations that allowed hominids to ...