Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Early apes to 'hominization' (around 35m to 8m years ago) The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our distant ancestors began to separate from the apes, whose own ancestors are ...

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 ...

An international research team has mapped the genomes of six ape species, revealing genetic distinctions that shed light on primate evolution. The study, published in Nature, provides a deeper ...

The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences among these species.

Instead, "we need to know where the common ancestor of African apes and humans evolved so that we can begin to understand the circumstances of this evolution," he said. "Between 14 million and 7 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...