Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

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 ...

They were made 3.3 million years ago, predating the earliest Oldowan stone tools by 700,000 years and the earliest fossils of the first member of the human genus—Homo habilis—by about 500,000 ...

New research on Australopithecus tooth enamel reveals early humans primarily consumed plants, challenging the idea of regular ...

Modern-day humans, scientifically known as Homo sapiens, are the sole living members of the genus Homo. Our human ancestors ...