we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics. We then started putting muscles onto the bones of the ...

New research from Oxford University has revealed chimpanzee "engineering" capabilities that aid them in retrieving insects as ...

Osteobiography involves the analysis of bones and other tissue. It is more commonly used in archaeology to reconstruct the ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright, but a chimpanzee's skeleton (left) isn't These features serve as useful identifiers in the ...

There are important differences between the human skeleton and stride and that of our closest cousins, the chimpanzees, however. On the ground, chimpanzees use a characteristic gait called knuckle ...

Exhibiting some chimp-like characteristics ... Despite the primitive appearance of its skull, the erectus skeleton is very similar to that of modern humans, although more robust (thicker and ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Chimpanzees in Tanzania choose flexible materials for termite tools, revealing clues about the origins of human intelligence ...

This year was another full of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand ... Turns out our closest living evolutionary cousins, chimps, do this too. A study in June by Elodie Freymann ...