Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe ... their diet and how they lived. The family group was part of a pioneer population ...

But it’s never been clear what species the bones belonged to or where they should sit in an increasingly complex human family tree. Christopher Bae, a professor in the department of anthropology ...

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the story of human evolution. To truly understand who we are, we must look at how we got ...