Human evolution tree

Paleontologists have discovered a 3.8 million-year-old skull in Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia that reveals the face of a male Australopithecus anamensis. Identified mainly by its projecting cheekbones and canine-esque teeth, the newfound hominin cranium provides new information about our earliest human ancestors. Previously, the 3.2m-year-old iconic hominin bones of Australopithecus Afarensis, best known as before Lucy, served […]

Human family tree - INTERACTIVE. To date, fossils from many different hominins have been excavated. Learn more about some of them in this interactive by the Smithsonian Institute.

Human evolution infographics with development stages from single cell to homo sapiens on white background vector illustration

This primate evolution phylogenetic tree shows how common ancestors relate to species. The phylogeny of primates is depicted in the tree below. The traditional classification of primates into prosimians and anthropoids is included at the top of the phylogenetic tree for comparison. Tarsiers were previously classified with the prosimian lemurs and lorises, but they are now classified separately. This is because, as shown in this primate evolution phylogenetic tree diagram, tarsiers shared a…

Human origin and other species and their evolution

The genetic footprint of a "ghost population" may match that of a Neanderthal and Denisovan hybrid fossil found in Siberia

the hominid family tree...

Simple human evolution chart.

The concept of synapomorphy explains why we are more closely-related to animals, than we think. But what is a synapomorphy?

Human Timeline (We are Homo Sapiens) Who created the Cave Art?