A new species of hominin or humans has been discovered in Northern China with an unforgettable physical feature— large heads. Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

Although various hypotheses and models have been proposed, refined, and/or abandoned for at least a century, the concept of environmental determinism and hominin evolution is still a hot topic today.