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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

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 ...

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.