Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Two related studies published in Science provide new insights into ape and human evolution, undermining three long-held ideas around the topic. One of the studies looks broadly at habitats ...

NORs have changed location throughout ape evolution, meaning that the chromosomes ... the expansions of these regions across different ape ancestors. Duplications can change gene expression ...

human ancestors began to walk upright on two feet, and this new habit, called bipedalism, set the evolution of human skeletons on a distinct path from our ape cousins. Walking on two feet helped ...

Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

Instead, "we need to know where the common ancestor of African apes and humans evolved so that we can begin to understand the circumstances of this evolution," he said. "Between 14 million and 7 ...

When we think of evolution, we think of slow, gradual changes in animal and plant species over millions, perhaps even ...

Scientists describe evolution as the changes that occur in ... combine evolutionary adaptations from both our tree-swinging ape ancestors and our ground-dwelling hominin relatives.

Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape similar in ... paved the way for the evolution of Homo sapiens. Bipedal Australopithecus are the ancestors of modern man.