Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human — defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins — and produced a ‘bizarre’ evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage — according to a new study that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.

​Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins — and produced a ‘bizarre’ evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage — according to a new study that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors. Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins — and produced a ‘bizarre’ evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage — according to a new study that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.