Those were venturesome steps for some ape-like creatures long ago in Africa. Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists. These ...

People and Neandertals separated from a common ancestor more than 800,000 years ago — much earlier than many researchers had thought. That conclusion, published online May 15 in Science Advances, ...

Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...

The announcement in November of the discovery of what appears to be a near-intact hominid skull in China is a stunning discovery. It has the potential of further revealing the complex intricacies of ...

A new, high-quality bonobo genome assembly has been constructed. It is allowing scientists to more accurately compare the bonobo genome to that of other great apes - the gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee ...

A new research conducted by two paleontologists at the University of Malaga has just revealed that human evolution uniquely combines an increase in brain size with the acquisition of an increasingly ...

The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech ...

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An ancient hominid skeleton dubbed Little Foot possessed a brain largely similar to that of modern chimpanzees and an inner ear with a mix of apelike and humanlike features, two studies suggest. These ...