In this video, I explain the difference between hominids and hominins, including the timeline of when the hominins split off from the hominids and the significance of this distinction. I cover the ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

The study of ancient DNA has greatly advanced our knowledge of human evolution ... continued for about 7,000 years. "This timeline closely matches the archaeological evidence for the overlap of ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined ... Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI ...

Why did Neanderthals go extinct, and why did modern humans survive ... event helps line up other key parts of the human evolution timeline. The findings constrain “the timing of the arrival ...

Now, some new analysis is further filling in the timeline of Neanderthal and modern human ... Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said in a statement. “While these humans only used the ...

Illustration of an encounter between a group of Neanderthals (black) and a group of modern humans (red ... and see how variants inherited from our evolutionary cousins, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...