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 ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

A study of tool use among chimps, our closest living relatives, has cast light on the human evolutionary journey.

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

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

Jan. 29, 2024 — A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus ... Dishing the Dirt on Human Evolution: Why Scientific Techniques Matter ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

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 ...

Other primates do it too. We – humans and other primates such as monkeys and apes – have something called social knowledge that allows us to keep track of the social dynamics of our friends, ...

While humans share over 95% of their genome with chimpanzees, our brains are far more complex due to differences in gene expression.