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 ...

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the story of human evolution. To truly understand who we are, we must look at how we got ...

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 ...