About a million years ago, a set of early humans left Africa, carrying their lice with them, and picked up others from the soon-to-be-extinct hominids such as the Neanderthal, already living in ...

Traditionally, only human ancestors were placed in the family Hominidae (and thereby referred ... 2010), but even this can be problematic: variation in extinct species need not be similar to ...

Begun, D. R. Miocene fossil hominids and the chimp-human clade. Science 257, 1929-1933 (1992). Begun, D. R. & Kordos, L. Phyletic affinities and functional convergence in Dryopithecus and other ...

Many of us look down at our aching knees and curse them — wondering why they seemingly evolved to hurt so much. But the human ...

Hominidae is the human family of the order primates ... and habits and its fingers and toes terminated in claws rather than nails. Plesiadapis became extinct by late Eocene time when true rodents were ...

Measurements of three Danuvius limb bones, two of which come from the same adult male, indicate that this extinct ape relied ... of a two-legged gait in hominids, says DeSilva, who was not a ...

Contemporary fiction is fascinated by Deep Time, a time before humanity and therefore before history, as it seeks to imagine ...

In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct, the number and diversity ... upright-walking hominids, including us. The astonishing diversity of mammalian species today stems ...

From the late 1930s, Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools in Olduvai and elsewhere, found several extinct vertebrates ... to constitute a new category of hominids, and called it Zinjanthropus ...

“By revealing the genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominids, his discoveries have provided the basis for the exploration of what makes us, humans, unique ...

In June 2023, an archaeological find in the Peloponnese rewrote ancient Greek history, in one of the most sensational ...