The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are traceable from at least 35 million years ago and are well ...

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet ...

These genomes offered a valuable opportunity to catalogue the genetic differences that have accumulated during the evolution of apes, including changes that are unique to humans. But, because ...

The classic 1968 film plunged viewers into a nightmarish world in which evolution had been turned upside down, and apes ruled a post-apocalyptic Earth while humans had been reduced to little more ...

Environmental Variability Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation Among ... and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes diverged millions of years ... A Fossil First ...

The findings are among the first to identify the significance of 'downclimbing' in the evolution of apes and early humans. The rotating shoulders and extending elbows that allow humans to reach ...

then returned to Africa where the human lineage then evolved. Reconstructing Ape Lineages Another approach is to infer the missing ape evolution that might have occurred in Africa, but without leaving ...

Stock image of bonobos grooming. A scientist posits that kissing in humans could have its origins in the "final kiss" movement in ape grooming. Stock image of bonobos grooming. A scientist posits ...

Nonetheless, there is enough consensus to thread the story of human evolution all the way from early apes to modern humanity. Most of this story centres on Africa, of course, where countries such ...

One of the first was made a century ago in Taung, South Africa, by mineworkers who came across the cranium of a 2.8 million-year-old child with human-like teeth.Its fossilized anatomy offered ...