In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an exciting find hits the headlines, paleoanthropology and its related fields ...

Researchers have discovered new insights into the human heart's structure, revealing its evolutionary history. This study enhances understanding of heart development and its implications for treating ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

Mongrel models and seductive scenarios of human evolution -- Terminology, morphology, genes, and lots of fossils : Apes in space ; Apes in time ; Taproot and branches of our family tree -- Positional ...

Shortly after the first human genome sequence was finalized in 2003, a chimpanzee assembly was released 2. This was followed by assemblies for other great apes, such as the gorilla 3, Sumatran ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion—from walking upright on two legs to climbing in trees and walking using all four limbs. While ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

Orangutan Win Gayo in the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem, Sumatra. Source: The Orangutan Project/with permission. I recently learned about two books by Leif Cocks, founder of The Orangutan Project and a ...