Time keeps marching on…backwards, at least when it comes to telling the story of human evolution and migration. The oldest ...

These fossils, they say, belong to a distinct group with its own role in the human family tree. Timeline and morphological groupings considered by Christopher Bae and coworkers (2023). (CREDIT ...

On the Indonesian island of Flores, fossils evidence a curious and diminutive early human species nicknamed “hobbit.” Homo floresiensis appear to have been living until perhaps 50,000 years ...

Fossils that "clearly foreshadow" modern humans are 30,000 years older than we thought. Scientists update the age of the Omo I fossils in eastern Africa, pushing the timeline of human history in ...

Some 180 years after unearthing the first human fossil, ... A Timeline of Hominid Evolution ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 300 No. 1 (January 2009) doi: ...

Knowing where these fossils belong in the evolutionary tree, geneticists could confirm that for this period of human evolution, the slower molecular clock rate of 0.5x10⁻⁹ provides accurate dates.

Nearly two decades ago, a small-bodied 'human-like' fossil, Homo floresiensis, ... Researcher adds to timeline of human evolution by studying an island fox Date: December 9, 2020 ...

Eastern Africa's oldest human fossils are even more ancient than researchers thought, a new study suggests. The Omo I fossils are a set of Homo sapiens bones unearthed in the late 1960s, deep in ...

Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa.

On the Origin of Lucy: How One Extraordinary Fossil Helped Alter Our View of Human Evolution Lucy walked on her own two feet. Scientists weren’t expecting that.

Not so long ago, new discoveries of ancient human fossil relatives might have been slotted into their spot in a tidy, linear timeline of human evolution, “a heroic and single-minded struggle ...