New gibbon-like fossil shows that ape ancestor was less like great apes than thought. News. Home Page ... convergence will help to elucidate the complex history of ape evolution,” Benefit and ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Anthropologists in Kenya have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull that reveals what the common ancestor of all living humans and apes would have looked like.

Now, the 11.6-million-year-old fossil ape newly discovered in Spain suggests the last common ancestor of all living hominoids may have been less like great apes than previously thought.

A potentially deadly infection wormed its way into the DNA of ancestral chimpanzees and gorillas between 4 million and 3 million years ago, thus altering the evolution of these African apes while ...

Human Evolution 'Huge surprise' reveals how some humans left Africa 50,000 years ago. ... our "last common ancestor" was an ape-like species that lived more than 7 million years ago.

University of California, Berkeley paleontologists have identified distinctive features of primate teeth that allow them to track the evolution of our ape and monkey ancestors, shedding light on a ...