The Origin of Us: Human Evolution

Kate Wong with Art Woods and Marty Martin

Scientific American editor Kate Wong traces the changing evidence for human origins, including African emergence, the many hominin lineages that once coexisted, fossil and DNA discoveries, and the interbreeding that complicates older straight-line accounts of evolution.

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STARTING FRAMEScientific / academic — evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology

EXPLORESScience, History & Faith

ENGAGEMENT EFFORTSubstantial

REVIEW DEPTHL3 · Deeply Mapped

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Good starting place if…

You want a scientifically grounded overview of where Homo sapiens came from and why the familiar single-file “march of progress” picture is misleading.

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This is a biology-forward hour, not a science-and-faith reconciliation conversation. Some reconstructions remain open to revision as fossils and genetic evidence change.