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 ...

Scrambling up trees could protect them from predators ... walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs.

For the past 150 years, scientists and laypeople alike have accepted a “savanna” scenario of human evolution. The theory, primarily based on fossil evidence, suggests that because our ancestral ape ...

The ancient human species Homo luzonensis is one of the most recent branches to be added to the human evolutionary tree. Find out how Homo sapiens left Africa and migrated to other regions of the ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

In NOVA’s Evolution Lab, students will explore the evidence of evolution through the lens of phylogeny. The Evolution Lab contains two main parts: Build A Tree: Students build phylogenetic trees ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...