In addition to Ardi, a possible direct ancestor, it is possible here to find hominid fossils from as recently as 160,000 years ago—an early Homo sapiens like us—all the way back to ...

An excellent example of this shuffling is the change in usage of the term "hominid." Traditionally, only human ancestors were placed in the family Hominidae (and thereby referred to as hominids).

Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most primitive hominid species known. Discussion continues over whether Ardipithecus is a hominid or not, whether it ...

The fossilized skeletons of multiple Au. sediba individuals were discovered in a cave in Malapa, South Africa, in 2008, and were designated as a new species of hominid in 2010. “It is almost ...

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.

They were pursuing a greater understanding of humanity's ancestors, and their real-life ... diminutive early hominid about 900,000 years old. The fragments, including a partial cranium, a portion ...

Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.

There is no more appropriate place to begin a regionally themed examination of human origins; just as modern hominid ancestors dispersed from Africa millennia ago, so has much of the current, ...

For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have come across a wild bee hive would have been like winning the lottery. Collecting minute amounts of nectar and pollen from flowering plants spread across the ...

Palaeontologists worldwide focused on the fossil, Orrorin tugenensis, which was touted to be the second-oldest known hominid ancestor related to the modern humans. But nine years after the ...