Orangutan expert Leif Cocks combines science, philosophy and stories and offers a compelling case for a shift in how we see, ...

Harvey Whitehouse argues that by taking control of our evolved psychology we can overcome divisive conformism, religiosity, ...

"Our study points to a three-step evolution of human bipedalism," Dr. Harrison said. "First, the earliest apes moved in the trees in a style that was most similar to aspects of the way that ...

Dennis, however, stresses that the stoned ape hypothesis is not meant to stand as the lone factor in human evolution.

The Spanish government has announced plans to ban harmful experiments on great apes as part of a wider initiative to give ...

A flood of comparative genomic data is resulting in the identification of human lineage-specific (HLS) sequences. As apes are our closest evolutionary relatives, transgenic introduction of HLS ...

The site, an eroded limestone cave called Malapa, is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that ... of Missouri who studies the evolution of apes and early hominins (a ...

Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

Contrary to the popularised image of mankind ‘arising’ from apes ... getting crowded out as the human jaw gets smaller with a soft diet. However sometimes evolution finds a good use for ...

Hammerschmiede discoveries “highlight how much we don’t know about the evolution of the great ape and human family, and of other primates, during the Miocene in Europe,” Almécija says.

in cu cm): 360-370 (slightly smaller than a male chimp's) SPECIAL FEATURES: oldest known hominin; set apart from other fossil apes by smaller canines, thicker and larger cheek teeth, and more ...