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 ...

New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

New research uses 3D modeling to reconstruct Lucy's running style, revealing surprising insights into the evolution of human ...

This is still a commonly used depiction of human evolution, with the famous Progress diagram having been published in a book called "Early Man" in 1965 explaining how we grew from apes to modern ...

Living hominoids (apes) are united by features related to their unusual locomotion, but few such traits are found in the earliest fossil forms. Which adaptations were likely present in the ...

Then, almost immediately, the ape in question runs ... taught to speak rudimentary human words, what does this mean for our understanding of communication and the evolution of speech?