He named the fossil Australopithecus africanus ... two divergent branches of our family tree also have famous members: the "Hobbits," found on the island of Flores in Indonesia, and Homo naledi ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the ... around 4.4 million years ago — and Australopithecus, which appeared about 2 ...

And this list is getting longer. As scientists discover new fossils, the hominid family tree grows new branches. But fossils are often difficult to categorize neatly as one species or another.

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids ... and retained the ability to climb trees. Since 1925 there have been numerous finds of Australopithecus fossils in East and ...

Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and distant kin in a vast family tree of life.