further evidencing that for humans, bonobos and chimpanzees, our use of sex for social reasons is something we have inherited from our common ancestor." The study took place at two African great ...

(Hominins are a group of species that includes modern humans plus all our extinct ancestors and relatives since the split from the common ancestor we share with chimpanzees.) The Oldowan tools ...

Because chimps and humans engage in this distinctive behavior but monkeys do not, Matsuzawa asserts that the common ancestor of chimps and humans must also have made eye-to-eye contact between ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent ... back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient ...

How can we identify the earliest members of the human family? How do we recognize the first stages of upright walking? What did our common ancestor with chimpanzees look like? “We didn’t have ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Since Jane Goodall's groundbreaking discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees in Gombe Stream ... When it comes to our human ancestors, most tools we find are made of stone, with the oldest found ...

Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor ... chimpanzees, though still distinct from modern humans ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

Can they run fast enough, and far enough? Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans, gorillas and chimpanzees. This ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...