Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

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 ...

Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion ... it would amount to a kind of grand unified theory of early hominid evolution. Any trait that proves to be so advantageous ...

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

MAROPENG, South Africa (AFP) - Two skeletons of a new hominid species dating back two million years and found in South Africa have shed light on a previously unknown stage in human evolution, ...

Erin Wayman is a science and human evolution blogger for Hominid ... because the mammals plucked fruits from the ends of tree branches A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ...