Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began around 6 million years ago and gave rise to at least 18 ...

A facial reconstruction of the 3.8 million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis specimen found in Ethiopia in 2016. ... It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo sapiens.

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

That would mean that the credit for tool use would now be shared between Homo habilis-- most often thought to be the progenitor of tool-making hominins -- and Australopithecus africanus, a species ...

Modern humans, known as Homo sapiens, descended over millions of years from earlier groups, such as Australopithecus, the best-known example of which may be the fossil Lucy, who lived about a ...

But it also led to Homo sapiens – the ultimate generalisers. ... the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis was believed to have speciated via anagenesis from Australopithecus anamensis.

Neanderthals shared the world with Homo sapiens for a while, ... Richard Leakey, son of Mary and Louis Leakey, in 1977 holding an Australopithecus skull in his right hand, ...

Today, only one kind of hominid remains: Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925.

Four Species of Homo You’ve Never Heard Of, Part II. The history of anthropology is littered with many now-defunct hominid species that no longer have a place on the human family tree ...

These included Australopithecus africanus, such as the famous “Mrs Ples” skull, as more than two million years old, and fossils of Paranthropus robustus and Homo erectus.