From the earliest days of their science, paleoanthropologists have shown a propensity to envision the human "family tree" as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the perhaps misapprehended Homo erectus to the famous...
Scientists have long envisioned the human "family tree" as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the famous Neanderthals, culminating in us, Homo sapiens . But this model is unlike the evolutionary patterns known for...