An artist’s reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, a species that can be called a hominid or a hominin. Image courtesy of Wikicommons If you follow news about human evolution, you’ve probably ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.

Hitherto, the earliest fossils recognized as belonging to the Hominidae, from Fort Ternan and the Siwaliks, have been dated to the Mio-Pliocene. Discoveries in early Miocene deposits at Songhor and ...