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 secrets of human brain evolution are beginning to be unveiled thanks to a recent study. Researchers have explored key ...

Scrambling up trees could protect them from predators ... walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs.

An evolutionary tree depicting the relationships among living ... which is supported by the analysis. This shows that human bipedalism evolved from an ancestral form similar to the living African ...

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 ...

In NOVA’s Evolution Lab, students will explore the evidence of evolution through the lens of phylogeny. The Evolution Lab contains two main parts: Build A Tree: Students build phylogenetic trees ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.