Hominins

Hominins are the branch of the tree of life to which humans belong. Today, Homo sapiens is the only surviving hominin species, but less than 40,000 years ago other hominins also inhabited the Earth. What initiated the divergence between chimpanzees and hominins? Who were the different hominin species? Today, paleoanthropologists do not study only hominin fossils; they also use genetic information to piece together the puzzle of human origins. This expanded and revised edition describes how this is done and what we have learned.