Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern ...

The record of evolution in our own genus, Homo, is already full enough to show we cannot separate ourselves with hard lines. Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human ...

Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago. The story of human evolution is not one of neat, linear progression with a concrete beginning and end. Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex ...

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

The result of this analysis is a phylogenetic tree, which illustrates the branching patterns of evolution, showing common ancestors and the paths of divergence that led to the diversity of life we ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage ... have included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering plants ...