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Early apes to 'hominization' (around 35m to 8m years ago) The story of human evolution usually starts at the point our ...
Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...
Humans' closest relatives are other apes, such as chimpanzees and bonobos. In fact, we share nearly 99% of the same genes, or letters in our DNA, with chimpanzees.
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 ...
New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...
An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, ...
The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences among these species. A report on ...
Analysis - South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school ...