The new research sheds light into the complex human family tree. (techtimes.com)
Thus, there must have been a long lag between when this group branched off the modern human family tree, roughly 200,000 years ago, and when they left their genetic mark in the Altai Neanderthal, about 100,000 years ago, before themselves being lost to extinction. (sciencedaily.com)
Yet another study focused on the height of Homo heidelbergensis and two other early human family tree members: Neanderthals and Cro - Magnon people, which were the earliest members of our species. (seeker.com)