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 ...

Gregory Forth has studied the homo floresiensis for roughly four decades—first when at the University of Oxford and then at ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

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 ...

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

7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution ... ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal locomotion courtesy of a novel method: ... Paleolithic ...

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.

have provided breakthrough insights into human evolution. Lucy's significance comes from the incredible combination of ape-like and human-like features she exhibits. Her small skull and long arms ...