This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

"Published with the assistance of the University of Washington"--T.p. verso. Brackets and tables, circles and maps, 1554-1872 -- Early botanical networks and trees, 1766-1815 -- The first evolutionary ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Evolutionary algorithms have emerged as a robust alternative to traditional greedy approaches for decision tree induction. By mimicking the natural selection process, these algorithms iterate over a ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

"Insanity is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." – Friedrich Nietzsche Something feels profoundly wrong with our world, doesn't it? That constant knot ...