The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close ...
The traditional labels Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus may no longer match the tangled relationships revealed by the ...
Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...
The meaning of taxonomic statements / George Gaylord Simpson -- East African fossil Hominoidea and the classification within the super-family / L.S.B. Leakey -- Quantitative taxonomy and human ...