Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary innovation setting human ancestors, the hominids, apart from the apes.

leading paleoanthropologists to infer that these fossils represent early members of the hominin lineage. The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and ...

The earliest Neanderthal fossils we have date from around 430,000 years ago. These hominids lived alongside early Homo ...

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