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 ...

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 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 and bushy branches stretch over many ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we ...

A better way to think about human evolution is like a 'bushy tree' with many branches. This is the metaphor increasingly used by scientists in this field. Each branch represents an individual ...