A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began ...

Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens ... life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree.

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from ... Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex and bushy branches stretch over many ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree ... that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving ...

This makes intuitive sense because common ancestry is the only factor that unites four billion years of life on Earth ... of the human evolutionary tree are vigorously debated in the literature ...

ur ancestor Homo ... sapiens were the first humans capable of living in such hostile terrain. The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in ...