Hominin evolution is a bush, not a ladder: around 300 000 years ago at least four species were alive at once, and Neanderthals are our sister species, not our ancestor. Two trends still run through the bush from Australopithecus to Homo. Walking upright came first, with a valgus knee and bowl-shaped pelvis while brains were still chimpanzee-sized; then, within early Homo, brains began to grow and limb proportions shifted to long legs and short arms, until cranial capacity had roughly tripled from Australopithecus to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.
Some variants leave more offspring than others. That one sentence explains fossils, DNA similarity, antibiotic resistance, and why there are so many species.
Horizontal bars show when each hominin species lived, stacked at its mean cranial capacity or at its arm-to-leg length ratio; a time cursor lights every species alive at that moment, so overlapping species and the order of the two trends can be read straight off the chart.
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