The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains.

Humans were bipedal before they had big brains and before they were using stone tools. So, if you look at living primates, and you look at humans compared to other primates, humans are the only ...

But what moved me even more than the dinosaurs was the many upright, bipedal primates who were there to see them. Some were quietly sifting through the crowds by themselves. Others moved in herds ...

"Bipedalism is a fundamental human characteristic ... which are adapted for climbing and grasping in the trees. Of the primates, only humans are fully developed bipeds. As scientists have ...

A SCIENTIST has revealed why human penises are so big in comparison with our closest living relatives. Research has shown the average member measures around 5.2 inches when erect, whereas for ...

The Primate Perspective reveals us as bipedal endothermic multicellular organisms with hands and big-fat brains. We are one kind of animal among many. Every human is a eukaryote, vertebrate ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today ... family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the "lesser apes" (siamangs and gibbons ...

"Primates that use arboreal locomotion more ... endowed with anatomical adaptations associated with habitual bipedal locomotion and brachiation, Potau states, "We discovered that the ratio between ...

What features distinguish primates from other mammals? This question is of central importance to Biological Anthropology - the study of primate adaptation and evolution. In addition to having ...