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 ...

The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and smaller, blunt canines.

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...

One of the oldest hominin fossils ever found was unearthed in 1994 by a team of scientists led by paleoanthropologist Tim White. The partial skeleton was located in Ethiopia and declared a new ...

Within the last 200 years, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of hominins in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see laid out in this map. The drawing of three human figures with a ...