When we think of evolution, we think of slow, gradual changes in animal and plant species over millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions, of years. It took humans, for example, an estimated six ...

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

About 150 scientists gathered at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference for talks that touched on the Thomistic notion ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across ...

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

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.

Humans and their ancestors must have evolved in parallel to the African apes. However, with no fossil record, we know virtually nothing about African ape evolution.” “There is a general ...

And, the most hotly debated question: Did the apes who were our human ancestors originate in Africa or Eurasia ... This is despite many known African fossil sites from that period. A Continuing ...